But there’s a much simpler, much more certain route he could take that dates all the way back to that early example of science fiction, the Bible. I can’t remember which Biblical figure did it, or why, but one of them sent an enemy out to the wars, put him in the front line, and got him geeked that way. (The Bible doesn’t say if the cobber behind the plot also arranged for someone in the second line to get careless with his spear, but that’s the play I’d have used if it were me setting it up.)