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00. Fall In
01. Mission, Objectives
02. Situation
03. Damage Report
04. Courses of Action
05. The Definition of Victory
06. Plan Design
07. Plan Implementation
08. Victory Campaign
09. Moral Foundation
10. Rules of Engagement
11. Hold Fast
12. Feasibility
13. Mobilize

ENDORSEMENTS
ABOUT
THE AMENDMENT

ENDORSEMENTS
ABOUT
THE AMENDMENT

The Definition of Victory

Operation
Abigail

is a project of the

FOR THE PRESERVATION
OF THE DEMOCRATIC-
REPUBLICAN MODEL OF GOVERNMENT

Property monopolized or in the Possession of a few is a Curse to Mankind. We should preserve not an Absolute Equality.—this is unnecessary, but preserve all from extreme Poverty, and all others from extravagant Riches.

John AdamsFragmentary Notes for "A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law," 1765

Harrington has Shewn that Power always follows Property. This I believe to be as infallible a Maxim, in Politicks, as, that Action and Re-action are equal, is in Mechanicks. Nay I believe We may advance one Step farther and affirm that the Balance of Power in a Society, accompanies the Balance of Property.

John AdamsA letter to James Sullivan, 26 May 1776

The only possible Way then of preserving the Ballance of Power on the side of equal Liberty and public Virtue, is to make the Acquisition of [Property] easy to every Member of Society: to make a Division of the [Property] into Small Quantities, So that the Multitude may be possessed of [Property].

John AdamsA letter to James Sullivan, 26 May 1776, cont.

If the Multitude is possessed of the Balance of [Property], the Multitude will have the Balance of Power, and in that Case the Multitude will take Care of the Liberty, Virtue, and Interest of the Multitude in all Acts of Government.

John AdamsA letter to James Sullivan, 26 May 1776, cont.

Thus she excited their Emulation [of the Gracchi], and put them upon reviving the old Project of an equal Division of the conquered Lands, (a genuine republican Measure, tho it had been too long neglected to be then practicable,) in order to make their Names as illustrious as Scipios.

John AdamsA letter to Abigail Adams, 25 August 1776

It is plain then that the most perfect community must be among those who are in the middle rank ... When some possess too much, and others nothing at all, the government must either be in the hands of the meanest rabble, or else a pure oligarchy.

John AdamsA Defence of the Constitutions, 1787, quoting "the wisest sentiments of Aristotle" (Pol. 1295b)

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Operation
Abigail

is a project of the

FOR THE PRESERVATION
OF THE DEMOCRATIC-
REPUBLICAN MODEL OF GOVERNMENT

Property monopolized or in the Possession of a few is a Curse to Mankind. We should preserve not an Absolute Equality.—this is unnecessary, but preserve all from extreme Poverty, and all others from extravagant Riches.

John AdamsFragmentary Notes for "A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law," 1765

Harrington has Shewn that Power always follows Property. This I believe to be as infallible a Maxim, in Politicks, as, that Action and Re-action are equal, is in Mechanicks. Nay I believe We may advance one Step farther and affirm that the Balance of Power in a Society, accompanies the Balance of Property.

John AdamsA letter to James Sullivan, 26 May 1776

The only possible Way then of preserving the Ballance of Power on the side of equal Liberty and public Virtue, is to make the Acquisition of [Property] easy to every Member of Society: to make a Division of the [Property] into Small Quantities, So that the Multitude may be possessed of [Property].

John AdamsA letter to James Sullivan, 26 May 1776, cont.

If the Multitude is possessed of the Balance of [Property], the Multitude will have the Balance of Power, and in that Case the Multitude will take Care of the Liberty, Virtue, and Interest of the Multitude in all Acts of Government.

John AdamsA letter to James Sullivan, 26 May 1776, cont.

Thus she excited their Emulation [of the Gracchi], and put them upon reviving the old Project of an equal Division of the conquered Lands, (a genuine republican Measure, tho it had been too long neglected to be then practicable,) in order to make their Names as illustrious as Scipios.

John AdamsA letter to Abigail Adams, 25 August 1776.

It is plain then that the most perfect community must be among those who are in the middle rank ... When some possess too much, and others nothing at all, the government must either be in the hands of the meanest rabble, or else a pure oligarchy.

John AdamsA Defence of the Constitutions, 1787, quoting "the wisest sentiments of Aristotle" (Pol. 1295b)

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