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Speaker 1: The Art of War by Swinzer, Chapter five Energy One.
Speaker 1: Swinzer said, the control of a large force is the
Speaker 1: same principle as the control of a few men. It
Speaker 1: is merely a question of dividing up their numbers. Two.
Speaker 1: Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise
Speaker 1: different from fighting with a small one. It is merely
Speaker 1: a question of instituting signs and signals. Three to ensure
Speaker 1: that your whole host may withstand the brunt of the
Speaker 1: enemy's attack and remain unshaken. This is effected by maneuvers
Speaker 1: direct and indirect. Four. That the impact of your army
Speaker 1: may be like a grindstone dashed against an egg. This
Speaker 1: is effected by the signs of weak points and strong Five.
Speaker 1: In all fighting, the direct method may be used for
Speaker 1: joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order
Speaker 1: to secure victory. Six. Indirect tactics efficiently applied are inexhaustible,
Speaker 1: as heaven and earth, unending, as the flow of rivers
Speaker 1: and streams. Like the sun and moon, they end, but
Speaker 1: to begin anew. Like the four seasons, they pass away
Speaker 1: to return once more. Seven there are not more than
Speaker 1: five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give
Speaker 1: rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. Eight
Speaker 1: there are not more than five primary colors blue, yellow, red, white,
Speaker 1: and black, Yet in combination they produce more hues than
Speaker 1: can ever be seen. Nine there are not more than
Speaker 1: five cardinal tastes sour, acrid, salt, sweet, bitter, Yet combinations
Speaker 1: of them yield more flavors than can ever be tasted. Ten.
Speaker 1: In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack,
Speaker 1: the direct and the indirect. Yet these two, in combination
Speaker 1: give rise to an endless series of maneuvers. Eleven. The
Speaker 1: direct and the indirect lead on to each other in turn.
Speaker 1: It is like moving in a circle. You never come
Speaker 1: to an end. Who can exhaust the possibilities of the combination.
Speaker 1: Twelve The onset of troops is like the rush of
Speaker 1: a torrent, which will even row stones along in its course.
Speaker 1: Thirteen The quality of decision is like the well timed
Speaker 1: swoop of a falcon, which enables it to strike and
Speaker 1: destroy its victim. Fourteen. Therefore the good fighter will be
Speaker 1: terrible in his onset and prompt in his decision. Fifteen.
Speaker 1: Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow,
Speaker 1: decision to the releasing of a trigger. Sixteen. Amid the
Speaker 1: turmoil and tumult of battle, there may be seeming disorder,
Speaker 1: and yet no real disorder at all. Amid confusion and chaos,
Speaker 1: your array may be without head or tail, yet it
Speaker 1: will be proof against defeat. Seventeen. Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline.
Speaker 1: Simulated fear postulates courage. Simulated weakness postulates strength. Eighteen. Hiding
Speaker 1: order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question
Speaker 1: of subdivision. Concealing courage under a show of timidity presupposes
Speaker 1: a fund of latent energy. Masking strength with weakness is
Speaker 1: to be effected by tactical dispositions. Nineteen. Thus, one who
Speaker 1: is skillful at keeping the enemy on the move maintains
Speaker 1: deceitful appearances according to which the enemy will act. He
Speaker 1: sacrifices something that the enemy mays snatch at it. Twenty
Speaker 1: By holding out baits, he keeps him on the march. Then,
Speaker 1: with a body of picked men, he lies in wait
Speaker 1: for him. Twenty one. The clever combatant looks to the
Speaker 1: effect of combined energy and does not require too much
Speaker 1: from individuals, hence his ability to pick out the bright
Speaker 1: men and utilize combined energy. Twenty two. When he utilizes
Speaker 1: combined energy, his fighting men become, as it were, like
Speaker 1: unto rolling logs or stones. For it is the nature
Speaker 1: of a log or stone to remain motionless on level ground,
Speaker 1: and to move when on a slope, if four cornered,
Speaker 1: to come to a standstill, but if round shaped, to
Speaker 1: go rolling down twenty three. Thus the energy developed by
Speaker 1: good fighting men is as the momentum of a roundstone
Speaker 1: rolled down a mountain thousands of feet in height. So
Speaker 1: much on the subject of energy. End of Chapter five