![]() ![]() You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended. If equally matched, we can offer battle if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy if quite unequal in every way, we can flee from him. It is the rule of war, if our forces are ten to the enemy’s one, to surround him if five to one, to attack him if twice as numerous to divide our army into two. In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy’s country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good. ![]() This is called using the conquered foe to augment one’s own strength. The captured soldiers should be kindly treated. There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. Advice that I found interesting included:Īll warfare is based on deception, hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable when using our forces, we must seem inactive when we are near we must make the enemy believe we are far away when far away, we must make him believe we are near.
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