Sunday, April 19, 2009

Art of War- Attacking By Stratagem

Sun Tzu said " In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole & intact; to shatter and destroy is not so good. So, too, it is better to recapture and army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy"
Hence to fight and to conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
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. This is way to approach any kind of problem. The leader has to understand the problem & plan his move accordingly.

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