Friday, June 8, 2012
18. All warfare is based on deception.
duhhh! who doesn't know that!
19. 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.
Hence, when we able to attack, we must make sure that the enemies know it; when using our forces, you might appear inactive but your forces are not! so the enemy know that too :-) when we are near, blow the trumpet, let them quake! when far away, call! let the enemies be given the chance to prepare..
20. Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.
It depends how much! the cash crushes with you!
21. If he is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him.
he is just as insecure as you, and unprepared (come-on you know it! you believe you are stronger so you move forward! "let me see how the coward reacts :-)" so you thought...
22. If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
you will both end up irritable! Pretend to be weak? he knows that too, so he gives you the floor!!! what? :-D :-D :-D
23. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them.
He doesn't care, he is snoring! let them unite, sooner or later they will fight against each other! you are a poor commander! :-)
24. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.
He is already diagnosed with paranoid personality disorder. he never sleeps without a gun on his side, he even expect that you will appear from the tv tube!
25. These military devices, leading to victory, must not be divulged beforehand.
you would go looking out for him when the devices are cloee to victory. he runs off scared to his feet that he becomes the invisibe man
26. Now the general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand. Thus do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat: how much more no calculation at all! It is by attention to this point that I can foresee who is likely to win or lose.
you can never tell really! life sucks!
II. Waging War
1. Sun Tzu said: In the operations of war, where there are in the field a thousand swift chariots, as many heavy chariots, and a hundred thousand mail-clad soldiers, with provisions enough to carry them a thousand li, the expenditure at home and at the front, including entertainment of guests, small items such as glue and paint, and sums spent on chariots and armor, will reach the total of a thousand ounces of silver per day. Such is the cost of raising an army of 100,000 men.
2. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be damped. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength.
whatever!!
3. Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain.
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4. Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardor damped, 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.
5. Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.
6. There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.
war is money! ask AMERICA,,,
7. It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
the Rothschild?
8. The skillful soldier does not raise a second levy, neither are his supply-wagons loaded more than twice.
9. Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy. Thus the army will have food enough for its needs.
charity begins at home...
10. 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.
11. On the other hand, the proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause the people's substance to be drained away.
12. When their substance is drained away, the peasantry will be afflicted by heavy exactions.
13,14. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and three-tenths of their income will be dissipated; while government expenses for broken chariots, worn-out horses, breast-plates and helmets, bows and arrows, spears and shields, protective mantles, draught-oxen and heavy wagons, will amount to four-tenths of its total revenue.
15. Hence a wise general makes a point of foraging on the enemy. One cartload of the enemy's provisions is equivalent to twenty of one's own, and likewise a single picul of his provender is equivalent to twenty from one's own store.
well!
16. Now in order to kill the enemy, our men must be roused to anger; that there may be advantage from defeating the enemy, they must have their rewards.
the enemy is as angry as your rewarded men, he will blackmail them, and the insurgents will sweet talk you!
17. Therefore in chariot fighting, when ten or more chariots have been taken, those should be rewarded who took the first. Our own flags should be substituted for those of the enemy, and the chariots mingled and used in conjunction with ours. The captured soldiers should be kindly treated and kept.
spoiled!
18. This is called, using the conquered foe to augment one's own strength.
19. In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.
20. Thus it may be known that the leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril.
III. Attack by Stratagem
1. Sun Tzu said: 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. So, too, it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them.
winner take all?
2. Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
no, he will make a secret exit!
3. Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans; the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces; the next in order is to attack the enemy's army in the field; and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities.
superman or a rocket scientist? make it combined!
4. 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.
5. The general, unable to control his irritation, will launch his men to the assault like swarming ants, with the result that one-third of his men are slain, while the town still remains untaken. Such are the disastrous effects of a siege.
he is working on his anger management! though he wants to blow his own walls, he often throw tantrums like the toddler next door!
6. Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.
what is "THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN"
7. With his forces intact he will dispute the mastery of the Empire, and thus, without losing a man, his triumph will be complete. This is the method of attacking by stratagem.
the weather conditon fairs better than "man's" unpredictability! who can tame these aborigenes!
8. It is the rule in 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.
need a cherleader?
9. 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.
he has the brain of Einstein!
10. Hence, though an obstinate fight may be made by a small force, in the end it must be captured by the larger force.
woah!
11. Now the general is the bulwark of the State; if the bulwark is complete at all points; the State will be strong; if the bulwark is defective, the State will be weak.
12. There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune upon his army:--
13. (1) By commanding the army to advance or to retreat, being ignorant of the fact that it cannot obey. This is called hobbling the army.
if that is your expertise why not?
14. (2) By attempting to govern an army in the same way as he administers a kingdom, being ignorant of the conditions which obtain in an army. This causes restlessness in the soldier's minds.
15. (3) By employing the officers of his army without discrimination, through ignorance of the military principle of adaptation to circumstances. This shakes the confidence of the soldiers.
they do not make a good Chamaeleonidae! your army are prowls of LEOPARDS!! Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
needs more acting workshop! either too plain or over emphasized! your soldiers are lazy thieves and you are their best bet!
16. But when the army is restless and distrustful, trouble is sure to come from the other feudal princes. This is simply bringing anarchy into the army, and flinging victory away.
they love trouble, that is why they are in the battlefield! and has no loyalty but to themselves! don't you dare believe that you are commited to one cause! theirs is a congenital disease!
oh well if the salary is good!
17. Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: (1) He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. (2) He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces (3) He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks. (4) He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. (5) He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.
read the history book and raise Napoleon from the dead! he has a good story to tell how the Sovereign interfered!
18. Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
you are a self centered delusional egoist! how COULD you KNOW TRUTH FROM LIE??
and so are your armies! (WHO NEEDS A MIRROR BY THE WAY?)
1. Sun Tzu said: The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
blah blah!
2. To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
what a lovely provision!
3. Thus the good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy.
straight from the horses mouth!
4. Hence the saying: One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.
call for a meeting!!
5. Security against defeat implies defensive tactics; ability to defeat the enemy means taking the offensive.
good job!
6. Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength.
I hope it works!
7. The general who is skilled in defense hides in the most secret recesses of the earth; he who is skilled in attack flashes forth from the topmost heights of heaven. Thus on the one hand we have ability to protect ourselves; on the other, a victory that is complete.
MAO!
8. To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
,,,I am getting there!!
9. Neither is it the acme of excellence if you fight and conquer and the whole Empire says, "Well done!"
,,,
10. To lift an autumn hair is no sign of great strength; to see the sun and moon is no sign of sharp sight; to hear the noise of thunder is no sign of a quick ear.
no more give away! you and your army have learned much already!
11. What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.
where is the next vacation?
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