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ORIGINAL: OrionTheWolf
The rules of warfare and aquiring power have not changed in thousands of years. The same strategies and tactics described by Sun Tzu, can be applied on any battlefield. Nations still bully with impunity, they just do it a little more selectively.
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ORIGINAL: philosophy
The battlefield has changed. The old rules no longer wholly apply. Nations used to be able to bully with impunity if their military was capable enough......that is changing too.
He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be dampened. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength. Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain. Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardor dampened, your strength exhausted and your treasure spent, other chieftains will spring up to take advantage of your extremity. Then no man, however wise, will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue... In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.
-Sun Tzu, the Art of War
27. All men can see the tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which
victory is evolved.
28. Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by
the infinite variety of circumstances.
29. Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and
hastens downwards.
30. So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak.
31. Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier
works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.
32. Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.
33. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and thereby succeed in winning, may be
called a heaven-born captain.
