Footnotes

1 Charlotte Faurie and Michel Raymond wondered if violent societies had more left-handed individuals than peaceful ones. Limiting their study to traditional societies, they reported, that murder was 30.76 times more common per capita among the Yanomamo of Brazil (22.6% left-handed) than among the Dioula of Burkina Faso (3.4% left-handed).

2 Pearl Harbor, the Battle of the Bulge, North Korea’s invasion of South Korea, Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, and 9/11 are instances of intelligence failures, all of which were “obvious” after the fact. On the other side of the coin, Anthony Cave Brown (1975) tells the story of the many brilliantly successful and highly imaginative Allied deceptions during World War II in Bodyguard of Lies. Policy makers, strategists, and tacticians all require a deep understanding of deception’s possibilities and limitations.

3 Try dividing CV by XX without converting into Arabic numerals—and expressing the resulting fraction in Roman numerals! (the answer is IIS…, read as “2 and ½ and 3/12,” Romans being able to express fractions only in halves (S for Semi) and twelfths (indicated by dots).

4 Every plane, ship, embassy and consulate, every business at home and abroad, every reservoir, bridge, school, shopping center, and sports facility, each (assuming no illnesses or vacations) requiring four security shifts working 42 hour weeks without breaks.

5 Taking a newly laid egg to hatch in captivity. The female will lay a replacement egg.

6 Economist 20 September 2003

7 Madrigal, A. (8 Dec 2008). http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/dogenvy/

8. Landsburg, S. (n.d.) Highway Robbery. Wall Street Journal.