‘The other side of the hill’ is used in military thinking to guess the enemy’s intentions, his tactical dispositions, and strategic designs.
Recently a British report informed the world that the West had been sleeping while Russia and President Putin built up a threatening military arsenal harboring a grand strategic design to roll back the decline of Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. So the West violated the principle of ‘on the other side of the hill’ assuming quite wrongly — naïvely — that Putin’s Russia was looking to join the West, which every student of history knows …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
