Like a cancer,

confrontation should be caught and treated as
early as possible -the longer you leave it, the graver it will
become. It is easier to treat a small malignancy than a fullygrown
tumour. If a verbal challenge is thrown down, you
should rise with the threat to Code Orange where a potency
assessment may be made. If an approach follows you should
automatically rise to Code Red, this being 'fight or flight'.
The approach may be made across the bar of a public house,
on the street, in a traffic incident, it may be some one getting
out of their car and approaching your vehicle. At this stage
you should have already utilised your 'flight' option and be a
hundred yards down the road. Where 'flight' may not be
plausible you may take advantage of the aforementioned
Four D's, if this technique works for your attacker then it can
work for you. As the famous Japanese strategist Miyomoto
Musashi said in his Book of Five Rings; 'What is true for one
is true for a thousand and what is true for a thousand is true
for ten thousand.' In other words, if it works against you it
can also work for you.