Guarding your Valleys and Fighting Your Giants OR A Tale of 2 Vales - Part 1

In November when bus #9 was standing on top of Mount Carmel our tour guide Ari - who had been an officer in the IDF Armoured Corps - said something that really made an impact on me, in the context of looking down at the Jezreel Valley spread below us. He said, "Battles fought for the mountains are won in the valleys." Here is the view we had: 

David and Goliath as told by Malcolm Gladwell

Favourite Line: "If you do the calculations on the stone in David's sling it is roughly the stopping power of a 45 millimetre handgun."

Moral of the Story: Don't bring a spear to a sling fight. With apologies to Sean O'Connery.