What is an Offensive Mindset? It’s a mindset whereby you take a disciplined approach to designing and executing your life on your terms.

Some core elements of this mindset follow:

• Identify Opportunities and set conditions to exploit them.

• When pitted within a constraint, exploit what you can do until you work your way out of the constraint.  You can create new opportunities through the limitations.

• Internal Locus of Control – critical…. be centered… you can only control what you can control… remember you always have maneuver space whether it be physical, mental and/or spiritual… identify, exploit and expand the maneuver space… create new opportunities, exploit them and move forward.

• Opportunities/Dilemmas – they come together.  Learn the art of turning lemons into lemonade. 

• Combined Arms Approach – think in terms of forward movement and affecting your will as often as possible… using multiple capabilities in a symbiotic way along the time, spatial and perceptual continuum.

• Offensive Action is decisive action; Defend only enough to consolidate resources and position for another offensive attack, or counter attack. Have a bias for action.

• Speed, flexibility, adaptability, agility and offensive… are as important, if not more, than being strong and intelligent in terms of survival.