"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat."
"If the enemy has occupied them before you, do not follow him, but retreat and try to entice him away."
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Source: Lionel Giles', Sun Tzu (1910). “Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers”, p.28, SJ Creations Tokyo
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