Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy!

If the enemy has occupied them before you, do not follow him, but retreat and try to entice him away.

Generally, management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization. And to control many is the same as to control few. This is a matter of formations and signals.

Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of the former.

What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

Do not engage an enemy more powerful than you. And if it is unavoidable and you do have to engage, then make sure you engage it on your terms, not on your enemy's terms.