Their main method of defense is rapid retreat. Few animal creatures have exhibited such abilities for extended existence. Only human beings have exhibited comparable potential abilities. They lie in their unique mental capacities. This gives them the ability to study and predict generally the changing conditions and to adopt and adapt, in the most advantageous strategic and tactical way, the means of survival and struggle provided by those conditions.
Leadership is problem-solving involving the art of strategy and tactics.
It is therefore necessary to human survival especially in social and political conflicts. However it's only source is the human mental process. Let us do as the cockroach and not as the dinosaur. Let us develop, train, and use our strength of adaptability as expressed through our capacity to think and study the survival problems we face so as to solve them. The sensitive instincts of the cockroach must be matched by our mental capacity to attain scientific truth about our conditions and about the strengths and limitations of ourselves and our enemies.