Tag: Alma

When we find something that works we can’t rest on our success because the adversary is constantly learning and trying to counter anything that has succeeded before. It is because he understood this principle that Moroni was constantly upgrading his defenses and his tactics.

Helaman and his men were able to capture so many Lamanites and provisions to the point that they couldn’t maintain all the prisoners. They faced the challenge of how to manage all their prisoners.

The key to success for Helaman and the army around him (not just his stripling warriors but also the men of Antipus) was that they kept pushing toward their goal even when they had setbacks. The army of Antipus was being beaten but when they saw the Lamanites turn away they regrouped to attack again.

Moroni want content to think only if what Ammoron offered or even to stop at his own original counter-offer. He kept thinking of new options until he acted on the most advantageous one – without giving up any prisoners he gained a city, took new prisoners, freed the Nephite prisoners, and didn’t lose a single…

If Moroni had not written in anger it is possible that Ammoron would have responded simply to accept the terms of exchange that Moroni proposed without getting angry and breathing out threatenings. Instead Ammoron was enraged to have Moroni lecture him about his wickedness.

I never before thought about the fact that Moroni choose to turn his attention from attaching the invading Lamanites to preparing food for his people after he had captured Mulek and fortified Bountiful. That was a decision on his part that gaining more territory was less valuable than stabilizing his people.

I think it unlikely that Ammoron only decided on opening up a western front in the West after Amalickiah was killed. It seems probable that he was already planning to do that to assist the first front that his brother led. Likewise I must be prepared to defend in multiple fronts in order to sta…

How did Moroni choose between dealing with the dissenting king-men or dealing with the invading Lamanites? Did he ever second guess the choice he had made, wondering if the Nephites would have been safer if they repelled the invaders before dealing with the dissenters? I have never before considered that he made a choice which…

Notice how strung armies are better able to use string defensive works (the earthen walls and works of timber. Likewise the defensive works encouraged men to join the army and add to it’s strength giving Moroni increased manpower to build the defensive structures and to make use of them.. I need to find patterns that…

How do I change the management of my life so completely that the curved started against me are flummoxed and hesitant to attack again?