Fogdog
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Sup, ANC"Sun Tzu said: In the operations of war, where there are in the field a thousand swift chariots, as many heavy chariots, and a hundred thousand mail-clad soldiers, with provisions enough to carry them a thousand LI, the expenditure at home and at the front, including entertainment of guests, small items such as glue and paint, and sums spent on chariots and armor, will reach the total of a thousand ounces of silver per day. Such is the cost of raising an army of 100,000 men.
When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be damped. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength.
Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain.
Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardor damped, your strength exhausted and your treasure spent, other chieftains will spring up to take advantage of your extremity. Then no man, however wise, will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue.
Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.
There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on...."
From the Art of War
Still angry at the US for doing exactly what we said we'd do? Art of War also has ton's of stuff about not letting the enemy pick your ground for battle and don't advance if there is no benefit.
These are the things old men who are far away from the field of battle talk about. The mud will be melting in about a month. Armies have been swallowed up in mud in past times. That kind of thing.
Flame throwers. Flaaaame throwers. There is no military purpose for using them. Still. the people of Ukraine remain.
I understand why you are angry at us.
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