| Re: Going to war |
Tue, 02 June 2009 23:37   |
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| neilhoward | 
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| Mark Hewitt wrote on Wed, 03 June 2009 02:02 |
What should you have when you go to war? Or preparing to withstand it?
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Knowledge and Will
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Know the smallest things and the biggest things, the shallowest things and the deepest things. As if it were a straight road mapped out on the ground ... These things cannot be explained in detail. From one thing, know ten thousand things. When you attain the Way of strategy there will not be one thing you cannot see. You must study hard.
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I believe knowledge of both your enemy and yourself are the greatest assets you can possess.
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So it is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will fight without danger in battles.
If you only know yourself, but not your opponent, you may win or may lose.
If you know neither yourself nor your enemy, you will always endanger yourself.
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Second, if victory is your goal you must pursue knowledge and subordination of politics economy and astrography.
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Seizing the enemy without fighting is the most skillful.
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Also the prescient(or anticipatory) will to act.
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Timing is important in dancing and pipe or string music, for they are in rhythm only if timing is good. Timing and rhythm are also involved in the military arts, shooting bows and guns, and riding horses. In all skills and abilities there is timing.... There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this. In strategy there are various timing considerations. From the outset you must know the applicable timing and the inapplicable timing, and from among the large and small things and the fast and slow timings find the relevant timing, first seeing the distance timing and the background timing. This is the main thing in strategy. It is especially important to know the background timing, otherwise your strategy will become uncertain.
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And the will to manage every aspect of your empire, no matter how time consuming.
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In war, discipline can do more than fury.
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Edit: Expanding
[Updated on: Wed, 03 June 2009 00:26]
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