"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat."
"The sovereign must have full knowledge of the activities of the five sorts of agents. This knowledge must come from the double agents, and therefore it is mandatory that they be treated with the utmost liberality."
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Source: Sun, Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, p.156, Aegitas
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