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Sun Tzu: THE ART OF WAR
Is the single best peice of literature writtin by anyone ever.
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be dampened. 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 dampened, 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...
Originally posted by PaddyInf
My vote has to be radar (no, not the one from M.A.S.H.). Saved the lives of millions during WWII, and has been improved upon ever since. I'd say that even today, an armies tactical abilities would be fatally reduced without it.
Originally posted by 5ick8oy
Certainly from the point of view of UK/Europe, if not for Radar we may have been all speaking German and eating Bratwurst now....
Originally posted by PaddyInf
I wouldn't. Have you ever tried to learn German?
Originally posted by 5ick8oy
Originally posted by PaddyInf
I wouldn't. Have you ever tried to learn German?
Nice one. I'd not thought of that. I remember failing German at school myself. The word I remember being particularly irritated by was the word for 'tram stop' which as I recall was Strassenbahnhaltestelle......