Quotation from: The Art of War

Written by: Sunzi (6th cent. B.C.)


2. Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not
supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the
enemy's resistance without fighting.


[Here again, no modern strategist but will approve the words
of the old Chinese general. Moltke's greatest triumph, the
capitulation of the huge French army at Sedan, was won
practically without bloodshed.]


3. Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the
enemy's plans;

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