The side with access to the most accurate information will win. Pathological liars are hindered in their ability to gauge reality. Pathological liars have a very shallow base of support that will abandon them the first chance they get. Pathological liars suffer from physical and mental illness. Pathological liars come to believe their own lies.
Honesty
Sun Tzu: He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.
Those who try controlling everything will end up controlling nothing.
Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.
Empty your mind. Be formless. Shapeless. Like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend. Bruce Lee