War Reference
SkillSearchQuick reference for the 33 Strategies of War. Browse, search, or get specific strategies.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.
Then ask your AI: use the War Reference skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by novusedge/palpatine in skills/war/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Invoked via /palpatine:war or /palpatine:war <query>.
Usage
| Command | Action |
|---|---|
/palpatine:war | List all 33 strategies |
/palpatine:war 4 | Show Strategy 4 (Death-Ground) |
/palpatine:war blitz | Search by keyword |
/palpatine:war outnumbered | Search by situation |
Quick Lookup
# By number
grep -A5 '"id": 4,' "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/war_index.json"
# By keyword
grep -i -B2 -A5 "speed\|fast\|blitz" "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/war_index.json"
Output Format
Single strategy:
**Strategy [N]: [Name]**
*"[Essence]"*
**When:** [situations]
**Keywords:** [for matching]
Thematic Groups
Self-Directed: 1-4 (clarity, adaptation, presence, urgency) Team: 5-7 (command, agility, morale) Defensive: 8-11 (economy, counterattack, deterrence, grand strategy) Offensive: 12-23 (intel, speed, leverage, infiltration, maneuver) Unconventional: 24-33 (deception, void, alliances, psychological)
All Strategies
- Declare War on Your Enemies (Polarity)
- Do Not Fight the Last War (Guerrilla-Mind)
- Presence of Mind (Counterbalance)
- Create Urgency (Death-Ground)
- Avoid Groupthink (Command-and-Control)
- Segment Your Forces (Controlled-Chaos)
- Transform War into Crusade (Morale)
- Pick Battles Carefully (Perfect-Economy)
- Turn the Tables (Counterattack)
- Make Defense a Pleasure (Deterrence)
- Lose Battles but Win the War (Grand Strategy)
- Know Your Enemy (Intelligence)
- Overwhelm with Speed (Blitzkrieg)
- Control the Dynamic (Forcing)
- Hit Them Where It Hurts (Center-of-Gravity)
- Defeat Them in Detail (Divide-and-Conquer)
- Defeat from Within (Trojan Horse)
- Expose the Soft Flank (Turning)
- Envelop the Enemy (Annihilation)
- Maneuver into Weakness (Ripening)
- Negotiate While Advancing (Diplomatic-War)
- Know How to End Things (Exit)
- Weave Fact and Fiction (Misperception)
- Line of Least Expectation (Ordinary-Extraordinary)
- Occupy Moral High Ground (Righteous)
- Deny Them Targets (Void)
- Seem to Work for Others (Alliance)
- Give Them Rope (One-Upmanship)
- Take Small Bites (Fait Accompli)
- Penetrate Their Minds (Communication)
- Destroy from Within (Inner-Front)
- Dominate While Submitting (Passive-Aggression)
- Sow Uncertainty (Terror)
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 108
- Forks
- 7
- Last commit
- Jun 2026
Advanced
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war- Source
- github.com/novusedge/palpatine