06.031 Therefore, your strategy for victories in battle...

Therefore, your strategy for victories in battle is not repetitious, and your formations in response to the enemy are endless.

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A superior Army is constantly evolving and learning new and better ways to achieve victory. In some instances, the army's advances in waging war may outpace the civilian/political leaders' knowledge of how best to avoid war.

I don't agree 100% with Sun Tzu that there is no role for repitition in war. Sometimes, effective tactics and strategies in one milieu can readily be transferred into a different milieu. It all depends. I think what Sun Tzu was suggesting is that one must be careful so as not to become so predictible lest a foe know how to properly prepare prior to giving battle.

The notion about having endless response to an enemy is a good point. However, with GANTT charts and decision trees, it is possible to do scenario planning in advance and thereby determine the probable responses of an enemy or nation state.

The "formations in response to the enemy are endless" is not something that I agree with entirely. First, if the war is executed properly, there really should not be any "formations" that are readily discernable or perceptible by the enemy. Remaining inscrutable and formless is a key aspect of controlling the enemy's fate. Second, with respect to human behaviour, it is a fact that nearly all human beings act and react in fairly predictable ways. This is why remaining formless is so very important. It keeps the enemy in the dark and guessing about what MIGHT happen.

The only things that are truly endless in warfare are the surprises and the mistakes that occur with unending regularity.

-BingFa

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Evaluate and adapt. Change conventional tactics into unconventional tactics. Try using equipment in new ways to achieve the impossible.

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Sun Tzu said, "Therefore, your strategy for victories in battle is not repetitious, and your formations in response to the enemy are endless."

The general uses wisdom, imagination, and economy to build an army that is adaptable to any circumstance.

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As irrational as the universe and the human brain create creative thoughts from a network of associations, the position is created in accord with the variables of the time. No moment in time is the same as before because new 'information' and history is added to the network, thus the network af associations creates every time again new and creative situations and results.

So how can strategy be repetitious?

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By being unprdeictable one can prevent the enemy from making defences based on past battles. It forces them to be at least as creative as us.

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Every battle is different. Military and business circumstances change. So changes your enemy. Something what might have worked in the past is not necessarily going to work in the future. So you have to monitor the changes to your opponent and environment and adapt your behavior.

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Stick to the Tao

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Therefore, your strategy for victories in battle is not repetitious, and your formations in response to the enemy are endless.

Large and small ...

Predictability comes about, at least partly, through repetitiveness. Our core strength, strategy, remains inscrutable if it is not predictable. Our lack of repetition, therefore, is a strategic tool. Besides all that, the universe evolves and is never the same, therefore nor should our strategy be so.

The tactical formations we use, though tried and trained, are endless in application within the broad define of our strategy. For each position taken by opponent we counter with one from our own repertoire.

Although each building is unique, we 'clear the building' each time. Which building we will clear next is the mystery.

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Therefore, your strategy for victories in battle is not repetitious, and your formations in response to the enemy are endless.

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Perogatives

Consider guerilla warfare tactics and modern strategies used by terrorists. Their mindset works on the element of surprise. We're not supposed to know what will happen next or where. It's the perogative of a terrorist to change his or her mind. This brings into play the whole fear factor and manipulation element.

Strategy for victory in negotiations among opponents becomes either a matter of cooperating to create value, or a matter of competing to claim values (or create imbargos if this is a goal). Here, the discussion arena is the battleground and tactics vary. In the value-creating view, negotiators aim to increase the available resources, to find joint gains or "win-win" solutions, where all parties will benefit. Negotiators must cooperate, and successful negotiators are open, unpredictable and creative. They share information, communicate clearly, maintain a cooperative attitude and focus on developing common interests.

In the value-claiming approach, negotiators aim to claim the largest share of the disputed goods, to steal or prevent trade. To be successful negotiators must engage in hard bargaining. It can be wise to start high, concede slowly, exaggerate the value of concessions, minimize the benefits. You can be relentless in striving to get what you want. You can exercise your perogative.

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Strategy as a Matter of Innovation

Devising effective strategy is a matter of assessing the current situation and tailoring a proper response. Because of this, it's never simply a matter of repeating the same thing you've done before. Even if you do end up repeating a previous move, it must come only after you've determined that it's the most apprproiate response given your new circumstances. Therefore, even if your actions are identical, your reason for doing it will never be exactly the same because no two situations will be exactly the same.

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