"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat."
"When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress to act. And even though you have wise counsellors, none will be able to lay good plans for the future. Thus, while we have heard of blundering swiftness in war, we have not yet seen a clever operation that was prolonged."
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Source: Victoria Charles, Sun Tzu (2015). “Art of War”, p.73, Parkstone International
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