A Quote by Sun Tzu
Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence.
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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.
To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.
We have an army for fighting as well as an army for labour. For fighting, we have the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies but even they do a dual job, warfare and production. With these two kinds of armies, and with a fighting army skilled in these two tasks and in mass work, we can overcome our difficulties and defeat Japanese imperialism.
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.
The World's most powerful army is the Army of Medicine, as it is fighting against a real enemy, the most powerful one: The Death!
An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
Let's be realistic, every terrorist came to Syria, he came through Turkey with the support of [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan. So, fighting those terrorists is like fighting the army of Erdogan, not the Turkish army, the army of Erdogan.
I think this idea of fighting the enemy within is sort of more interesting than fighting an external enemy.
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.
To Subdue an enemy without fighting is the greatest of skills
Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle .... They conquer by strategy.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
The People's Liberation Army is always a fighting force. Even after countrywide victory, our army will remain a fighting force during the historical period in which classes have not been abolished in our country and the imperialist system still exists in the world. On this point, there should be no misunderstanding or wavering.
We're in a declared war, but unless were clear about who the enemy is, we'll waste our time fighting enemies that aren't enemies at all. There's only one enemy and no matter what people do, say or react people are never the enemy. The enemy is our only enemy.
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