The Art of War (long post)
Ray Gordon, GENIUS
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> Hi Guys
>
> here are my notes on the Art of war in relation to PU, please add your
> own and comments if you wish, drop me an email, etc.
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> THE ART OF WAR
>
> A matter of life and death. A road to either safety or to ruin. A
> subject of enquiry which can on no account be neglected.
>
> The supreme act of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
>
> Know your enemy know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles
> without disaster.
>
> If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not
> thoroughly understood, then the general is to blame.
>
> Five constant factors
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> (1) moral law - follow the ruler regardless of their lives
> (2) heaven - night day, cold and heat, times and seasons
> (3) earth - distances, great and small, danger and security, life and
> death
> (4) commander - wisdom, sincerity, benevolence, courage, strictness
> (5) method and disciplines - subdivisions, maintenance of 'supplies',
> control of expenditure
>
> (I) which indued with moral law (restriction)
> (2) which has most ability? (Guide)
> (3) whom has advantages from heaven and earth (appear)
> (4) which side discipline rigorously enforced? (Congruity)
> (5) which army is stronger? (Wings)
> (6) on which side are more highly trained? (Knowledge)
> (7) greater constancy both in reward and punishment?
>
> "While the main laws of strategy can be stated clearly enough for the
> benefit of all and sundry, you must be guided by the actions of the
> enemy in attempting to secure a favourable position in actual
> warfare"- necessity to frame new plans at the critical moment.
>
> All warfare is based on deception. 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 that we are far away, we must make him
> believe we are near.
>
> Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.
>
> If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united,
> separate them.
>
> Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected
> (streetwork?)
>
> 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 loose. (Necessity of a written SOI/gameplan).
>
> When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, the
> men's weapons will grow dull and their ardour will be damped. If you
> lay seige to a town, you will exhaust your strength.
>
> It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that
> can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on. (That
> is with rapidity. Only one who knows the disastrous effects of a long
> war can realise the supreme importance of rapidity in bringing it to a
> close.)
>
> 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.
>
> In war then let your great object be victory not length campaigns.
>
> Better to take enemy's country whole and intact.
>
> Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without
> fighting.
>
> Do not beseige 'walled cities' - up to 3 months to pile up mounds
> against walls.
>
> He capture their cities without laying seige to them, he other throws
> their kingdoms without lengthy operations in the field.
>
> ' the military sphere and the civil sphere are wholly distinct; you
> can't handle an army in kid gloves. Humanity and justice are the
> principles on which to govern a state, but not an army; opportunism
> and flexibility on the other hand are military rather than civic
> virtues.'
>
> Five principles to victory
>
> 1) he will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight
> (calibration)
> 2) he will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior
> forces. (Wings)
> 3) he will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout
> all its ranks
> 4) he will win who, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
> 5) he will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by
> the sovereign (others).
>
> 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 suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you
> will succumb in every battle.
>
> (Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself
> enables you to stand on the defensive. Attack is the secret of
> defence; defence is the planning of an attack).
>
> Good fighters put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat
> (reframe/shields?)
>
> To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the
> opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
>
> Thus a good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but
> cannot make certain of defeating the enemy. (One may know HOW to
> conquer without being able to do it)
>
> Ability to defeat the enemy means taking the offensive.
>
> True excellence - to plan eecretly, to move surreptitiously, to foil
> the enemy's intentions and baulk his schemes, so that at last the day
> may be won without shredding a drop of blood".
>
> A clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with
> ease.
> 13. He wins his battles by making no mistakes "he plans no superflous
> marches, he devises no futile attacks (time wasting). One who seeks to
> conquer by sheer strength, clever though he may be at winning pitched
> battles, is also liable on occasion to be vanquished; whereas he who
> can look into the future and discern conditions that are not yet
> manifest, will never make a blunder and therefore invariably win.
>
> 14. Hence a skilful fighter puts himself into a position which makes
> defeat impossible (reframe/other activity), and does not miss the
> moment for defeating the enemy.
>
> "In warfare first lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead
> your army to battle; if you will not being with stratagem, but rely on
> brute strength alone, victory will no longer be assured".
>
> Military method
> 1) measurement
> 2) estimation of quantity
> 3) calculation
> 4) balancing of chances
> 5) victory
>
> "we must cause the enemy to regard our straightforward attack as one
> that is secretly designed, and vice versa".
>
> In all fighting the direct method may be used for joining battle
> (action), but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure
> victory (knowledge).
>
> Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and
> Earth, unendng as the flow of rivers and streams; like the sun and
> moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass
> away but to return once more.
>
> In battle there are not more than two methods of attack - the direct
> and indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to an endless
> series of manoeuvres.
>
> The quailty of decision is like the well-times swoop of a falcon which
> enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
>
> Amid the turmoil and turmult of battle there may be seeming disorder
> and yet no real disorder at all; amid confusion and chaos.
>
> "If you wish to feign confusion in order to lure the enemy on, you
> must first have perfect discipline; if you wish to display timidity in
> order to entrap the enemy, you must have extreme courage; if you wish
> to parade your weakness in order to make th enemy overconfident, you
> must have exceeding strength."
>
> Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of
> subdivision; concealing courage under a show of timidity presupposed a
> fund of latent energy; masking strength with weakness is to be
> effected by tactical dispositions.
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> Thus one who is skilful at keeping the enemy won the move maintains
> deceitful appearances, according to which the enemy will act.
>
> The places I shall attack are precisely those that the enemy cannot
> defend
>
> "Emerge from the void, strike at vulnerable points, shun places that
> are defended, attack in unexpected quarters".
>
> "He who is skilled in attack flashes forth from the topmost heights of
> heaven making it impossible for the enemy to guard against him. This
> being so, the places that I shall attack are precisely those that the
> enemy cannot defend. He who is skilled in defence hides in the most
> secret recesses of the earth (ASF) making it impossible for the enemy
> to estimate his whereabouts. This being so, the places that I shall
> hold are precisely those that the enemy cannot attack."
>
> Oh divine art of sublety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be
> invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's
> fate in our hands.
>
> By discovering the enemy's dispositions and the remaining invisible
> ourselves, we can keep our forces concentrated while the enemy's must
> be divided.
>
> And if we are able thus to attack an inferior force with a superior
> one, our opponents will be in dire straits.
>
> Force him to reveal himself, so to find out his vulnerable spots.
>
> Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let
> your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances.
>
> So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is
> weak (like water, taking the line of least resistance).
>
> Therefore just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there
> are no constant conditions. The five elements are not always equally
> predominant; the four seasons make way for each other in turn. There
> are short days and long, the moon has its periods of waning and
> waxing.
>
> He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and thereby
> succeed in winning may be called a heaven born captain.
>
> Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move,
> fall like a thunderbolt.
>
> In battle a courageous spirit is everything".
>
> When in difficult country do not encamp...Do not linger in dangerously
> isolated positions. In hemmed in situations you must resort to
> stratagem. In a desperate position, you must fight.
>
> There ar efive dangerous faults which may affect a general
>
> (A) Reckless ness, which leads to destruction
> (B) cowardice, which leads to capture.
>
> Sun Tzu knew nothing is to be achieved in war unless you are willing
> to take risks.
> "The seeker after glory should be careless of public opinion.
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> He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is
> sure to be captured by them.
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> 6 ways of courting defeat
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> (1) neglect to estimate the enemy's strength.
> (2) want of authority
> (3) defective training
> (4) unjustifiable anger
> (5) non observance of discipline
> (6) failure to use picked men.
>
> Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in
> his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise for the
> result is waste of time and general stagnation.
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> Those who want to make sure of succeeding in their battle and assaults
> must seize the favourable moments when they come and not shrink on
> occasion from heroic measures (MUST APPROACH): that is to say, they
> must resort to such means of attack as fire, water and the like (ASF).
> What they must no do, and what will prove fatal, is to sit an simply
> hold on to the advantages they have got"
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> Regards,
> YorkDude (UK)
