"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat."
"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."
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Source: Sun Tzu, Shang Yang (1997). “The Art of War”, p.25, Wordsworth Editions
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