"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat."
"To persuade your enemy to (retreat) before the fight is to defeat them even before the battle begins. An enemy made ally is no longer an enemy."
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Source: Sun, Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, p.103, Aegitas
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