A Quote by Sun Tzu
Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle .... They conquer by strategy.
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To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.
And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.
To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad is better than to destroy them. For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the supreme of excellence. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence.
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.
Those who are skilled in combat do notbecome angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.
Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.
To Subdue an enemy without fighting is the greatest of skills
Beauty is the enemy . We try to conquer not feeling beautiful all our lives. It's a battle that can't be won. There's no definition of beauty. The only way to achieve beauty is to feel it from inside without breaking down into individual physical attributes.
Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.
The history of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be able to deal with a ruthless terrorist enemy that uses civilians as a human shield without having some incidental civilian casualties.
no army has ever marched into battle thinking that the Creator had sided with their enemy.
I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.
It has always been my ideal in war to eliminate all feelings of hatred and to treat my enemy as an enemy only in battle and to honour him as a man according to his courage.
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