{"id":1714,"date":"2006-10-30T07:29:39","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T14:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/30\/war-and-winning-it\/"},"modified":"2006-10-30T07:29:39","modified_gmt":"2006-10-30T14:29:39","slug":"war-and-winning-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/30\/war-and-winning-it\/","title":{"rendered":"war and winning it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><br \/>\nThus we may know that there are five essentials for victory:<br \/>\n   1. He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.<br \/>\n   2. He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.<br \/>\n   3. He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.<br \/>\n   4. He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.<br \/>\n   5. He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Sun Tzu aprox 600 BC (copy pasted from <a \"href=http:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/The_Art_of_War_%28Sun%29\/Section_III\">wikisource<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>looks like we are fucked.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twexus.com\/aimg\/120992384\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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