Anon studies the art of war

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Zee_Arr_Tee@reddit

Enemy general makes fatal blunder which may cause his whole army to be routed

Your general doesn't exploit it cause of honour

Enemy general wins in the end

Sun Tzu puts his head in his hands

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vjmdhzgr@reddit

MINOR ERROR

Sun Tzu could not have seen people be killed by cannons, they did not exist yet.

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LordSaltious@reddit

Warfare is simpler in the past

And people are usually not educated or literate beyond what their job entails

"Bro this is like, so obvious...! I'm so much smarter than this guy!"

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Sirmiglouche@reddit

Anyone who has ever organized a peoject involving more than 5 people must feel it deep within themselves how hard it would be to lead a 2000 men strong army during a campaign.

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jobitus@reddit

The military figured it out ages ago, a commander can deal with about 3 mainline subordinates, after that performance declines.

Three battalions per regiment, three companies per battalion, three platoons per company.

And they are not your "people on the project", they all went through quite some breaking that someone called "the science of obeying and commanding".

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Basically just have to delegate to officers. Who delegate to their subordinates, and so on. While hoping beyond hope that the proportion of those in command that are competent outstrips those who are craven, corrupt, or just plain stupid. All of this while reporting to a king who might be stupid, but you can’t do anything about that without a coup.

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KarlPc167@reddit

Anon finds out that "common sense" is actually extremely uncommon

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Omegawop@reddit

There's a dope story in there about how one general lures his opponent out into the field through a narrow valley. He then carves something to a tree as he's making a false retreat in the night. Dumbfuck follows, gets to the tree, sees something is carved in it and orders a torch so that he can read it. It says "Here lies Dumbfuck who I completely outwitted".

As soon as the torch was broght and Dumbfuck read what was essentially his own epitaph, archers above honed their arrows on the torches and killed Dumbfuck and his loyal vassels.

anon isn't doing the book justice. You should read it if you haven't before.

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