# Combat Without Fighting **Domain:** Strategic theory **Doc Type:** Developed Wiki Node **Maturity:** Developed **Collection:** [[collections/Gamification|Gamification Collection]] ## Definition **Combat without fighting** is the aspiration to obtain strategic effects by shaping an opponent's choices, cohesion, perception, or capacity before direct kinetic contact. ## Significance It is not identical to peace: coercion, deception, exclusion, and durable injury can occur without battlefield violence. ## Sources - [[articles/gamification/Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed|Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed]] - [Primary or institutional source](https://www.innovationhub-act.org/sites/default/files/2021-01/20210122_CW%20Final.pdf) ## Routes [[wiki/Sun Tzu|Sun Tzu]] · [[wiki/Substitution Thesis|Substitution Thesis]] · [[wiki/Campaign for Consciousness|Campaign for Consciousness]] · [[articles/gamification/Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed|Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed]]