"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat."
"With regard to narrow passes, if you can occupy them first, let them be strongly garrisoned and await the advent of the enemy."
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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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