How David Beats Goliath

Vivek Ranadivé coached his daughter Anjali's mostly twelve-year-old basketball team to the national championships by having them play a full-court press in every game. Political scientist Ivan Arreguín-Toft found that stronger sides won 71.5 per cent of wars against weaker ones over the past two hundred years, and that when weaker sides used unconventional strategies, their win rate rose from 28.5 to 63.6 per cent. The article also recounts T. E. Lawrence's campaign against the Ottoman Army in Arabia, where mobile Bedouin fighters struck the railway and took Aqaba by attacking from the desert.