Brad Pitt's Moneyball Movie and General Petraeus' Counter-insu

We saw Brad Pitt's Moneyball on Saturday. It is a great movie. Brad Pitt and Phillip Peter Hoffman turn in excellent performances. Also, Chris Pratt plays another role besides that goofy shoeshine guy on NBC's Parks and Recreation. The whole movie reminded me of Gen. Petraeus' Counter Insurgency Field Manual for the U.S. Army: the challenger in a conflict must be powerful enough to present an asymmetric threat, but the defender must be nimble enough neutralize the asymmetric threat. (cf. von Clausewitz's "mathematics of a firefight").