Reduce the hostile chiefs by inflicting damage on them; and make trouble for them, and keep them constantly engaged; hold out specious allurements, and make them rush to any given point.

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To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy’s numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.

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Poverty of the State exchequer causes an army to be maintained by contributions from a distance. Contributing to maintain an army at a distance causes the people to be impoverished.

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If you are indulgent, but unable to make your authority felt; kind-hearted, but unable to enforce your commands; and incapable, moreover, of quelling disorder: then your soldiers must be likened to spoilt children; they are useless for any practical purpose.

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The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.

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If we know that the enemy is open to attack, but are unaware that our own men are not in a condition to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.

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There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.

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If your opponent is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them.

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All men can see the tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

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If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attached to you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be useless.

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The rule is, not to besiege walled cities if it can possibly be avoided. The preparation of mantlets, movable shelters, and various implements of war, will take up three whole months; and the piling up of mounds over against the walls will take three months more.

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In order to carry out an attack, we must have means available. The material for raising fire should always be kept in readiness.

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Anger at the #police handling of the #Sydney #protests continues with an exclusive report on a group of #Labor members voicing their “#disgust” at the scenes, & sharp #criticism of the #aggressive #tactics from a policing expert who attended Monday’s rally.

The #NSW policing expert who participated in the rally, added that the clashes with protesters could have been prevented.

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If you are careful of your men, and camp on hard ground, the army will be free from disease of every kind, and this will spell victory.

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There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: Recklessness, which leads to destruction; Cowardice, which leads to capture; A hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; A delicacy of honor which is sensitive to shame; Over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry.

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The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.

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We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country - its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.

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The skillful fighter wins his battles by making no mistakes. Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.

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The onrush of a conquering force is like the bursting of pent-up waters into a chasm a thousand fathoms deep.

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Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of the former.

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