Strategic preparation neutralizes unplanned reactions of passive populations
Evidence
The level of strategic preparation can give the victory to forces which are “apparently” (i.e. quantitatively) inferior to those of the enemy. It could be said that strategic preparation tends to reduce to zero the so-called “imponderable factors”—in other words, the immediate, unpremeditated reactions at a given moment of the traditionally inert and passive forces. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 848