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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 276274" data-attributes="member: 1645">Re: Re: Primer on Strategy and TacticsI've enjoyed Sun Tzu's <a href="http://www.chinapage.com/sunzi-e.html" target="_blank">Art of War</a> too, but I have to repeat my complaint that it's not necessarily a great down-to-earth resource.  Or rather, sometimes it's extremely concrete, and thus out-dated -- "Camp in high places, facing the sun" -- while other times it's extremely abstract and metaphorical, and thus hard to put into practice:I. LAYING PLANS 1. Sun Tzu said:  The art of war is of vital importance    to the State. 2. It is a matter of life and death, a road either    to safety or to ruin.  Hence it is a subject of inquiry    which can on no account be neglected. 3. The art of war, then, is governed by five constant    factors, to be taken into account in one's deliberations,    when seeking to determine the conditions obtaining in the field. 4. These are:  (1) The Moral Law; (2) Heaven; (3) Earth;    (4) The Commander; (5) Method and discipline.5,6. The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete    accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him    regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger. 7. Heaven signifies night and day, cold and heat,    times and seasons. 8. Earth comprises distances, great and small;    danger and security; open ground and narrow passes;    the chances of life and death. 9. The Commander stands for the virtues of wisdom,    sincerely, benevolence, courage and strictness.10. By method and discipline are to be understood    the marshaling of the army in its proper subdivisions,    the graduations of rank among the officers, the maintenance    of roads by which supplies may reach the army, and the    control of military expenditure.11. These five heads should be familiar to every general:     he who knows them will be victorious; he who knows them    not will fail.12. Therefore, in your deliberations, when seeking    to determine the military conditions, let them be made    the basis of a comparison, in this wise:--13. (1) Which of the two sovereigns is imbued        with the Moral law?    (2) Which of the two generals has most ability?    (3) With whom lie the advantages derived from Heaven        and Earth?    (4) On which side is discipline most rigorously enforced?    (5) Which army is stronger?    (6) On which side are officers and men more highly trained?    (7) In which army is there the greater constancy        both in reward and punishment?...</blockquote>

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