"You've got to get out on the ground, talk to people, understand the terrain and understand your enemy."

"Give me enough weapons and I don't need to understand my enemy," Martin said.

Understanding one's enemy, Gathrid had been told, was the first step to conquering him.

"But now, more than ever, it is imperative for us to understand our enemy."

All because he had not understood his enemy.

But Aeneas is able to understand and respect his enemy.

"To understand one's enemy is to render him no longer an enemy."

"First we try to understand our enemy - the man and not the plague," Beckett said.

"Tenoctris wants to understand her enemy so that she can counter her," he said.

He wanted to talk to his opponent, understand his enemy.