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- There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.
- If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
- When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before…
- Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation.
- Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men.
- The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals. Hence his ability to pick out the…
- When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food.
- If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst.
- By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his camp and taking circuitous routes,…
- Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general is responsible. These…
- If you are situated at a great distance from the enemy, and the strength of the two armies is equal, it is not easy to…
- From a position of this sort, if the enemy is unprepared, you may sally forth and defeat him. But if the enemy is prepared for…
- We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) entangling ground; (3) temporising ground; (4) narrow passes; (5) precipitous heights; (6)…
- There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefitted.
- The end and aim of spying in all its five varieties is knowledge of the enemy; and this knowledge can only be derived, in the…
- In the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.
- If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely traced…
- Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy... use the conquered foe to augment one's own strength.
- Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs…
- Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards... Water shapes its course according…
- In all history, there is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the disastrous effects of a long…
- You can prevent your opponent from defeating you through defense, but you cannot defeat him without taking the offensive.
- Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems.
- The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.
- There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
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