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1 Analysis
2 Going to War
3 Planning an Attack
4 Positioning
5 Momentum
6 Weakness and Strength
7 Armed Conflict
8 Adaptability
9 Armed March
10 Field Position
11 Types of Terrain
12 Attacking with Fire
13 Using Spies
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2 Make no assumptions about all the dangers in using military force.
Then you won't make assumptions about the benefits of using arms either.
3 You want to make good use of war.
Do not raise troops repeatedly.
Do not carry too many supplies.
Choose to be useful to your nation.
Feed off the enemy.
Make your army carry only the provisions it needs.
3 The nation impoverishes itself shipping to troops that are far away.
Distant transportation is costly for hundreds of families.
Buying goods with the army nearby is also expensive.
High prices also exhaust wealth.
If you exhaust your wealth, you then quickly hollow out your military.
Military forces consume a nation’s wealth entirely.
War leaves households in the former heart of the nation with nothing.
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Strategy clarifies what you can and cannot
know about the future. This section provides
the basis for ideas later in the work that deal
with chaos or complexity. Strategy is designed
for dynamic, unpredictable environments,
while traditional planning is designed
for controlled, predictable environments.
This is important, for example in management,
because it defined the limits of what
can be planned at a competitive boundary. |
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