Welcome to Preview of the partially examined life episode 255 part 2 on Sunsu's The

Art of War.

We've already given a general overview of the text skipping around to different parts

and then we zoomed into a close textual analysis.

We peer-picked that up with chapter 3 out of 13.

I'm going to play you three clips from near the beginning of that discussion that get

into why Sunsu thinks you need to wage war at all.

How to do so most successfully causing the least damage and we also talked about how

Sunsu's advice can be applied or not to business matters.

The expert in deploying troops will humble the enemy without ever engaging them in battle.

He will take their cities without ever attacking and topple the ruling house without

protracted engagements for always when contending in the realm success means keeping yourself

whole.

So this was a big deal near Rockwar which I was there twice and it was identifying the

enemy center of gravity which we identified as Baghdad and there was a big discussion afterwards

about was this the way to go and there was a big critique of the maneuverists took over

and we should have just slogged down the conventional war in Yadi Yadi.

But then if you look at the first line there in chapter 3 in general the way to deploy troops

is this to take the enemy state whole as ideal less than ideals breaking the state up

to take their army whole as ideal less than ideal is breaking the army up.

Just take a battalion of the expiginary force or regiment of 5 man squad intact is less

than ideal is breaking unit up for this reason winning 100 victories in a hundred battle

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