Reacher wrote: Anyway, before this gets too long I'll go ahead and post my thoughts:
If someone held a gun to my head and said, "Choose," I'd pick Power Through Knowledge. Every response makes sense in a certain context, but my default setting is that knowledge frees us to make informed decisions which can then influence people, things, and ideas. I don't see knowledge as the only requirement for power, but is more the buy-in to play in the game. If you're chained by ignorance, it's very difficult to have a conversation from a position of power.
You are very perceptive and I agree with your comments. The point of my post was not to say anyone was wrong. It was to open up the field of thinking to other options. I don't believe that power and knowledge have any sort of direct correlation because there is more to power than just knowledge. But to me, peace seems to be a closer cousin to knowledge because one can even have peace in the midst of conflict.
To have knowledge on the battlefield, your enemies capabilities, numbers, tactics, the terrain etc can give a commander peace in decision making. If he has the advantage he can move towards victory, a form of power, but if he knows he does not he will retreat to fight another day, not a position of power but one of sound decision making. However power is also in the eye of the beholder because this decision may give him high status in the eyes of his troops, which could be considered a different form of power.
