| Artillery - 1920 - 848 pages
...military treatise the Chinese General Sun Wu, writing more than twentyfour hundred years ago, stated, "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need...but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle." Every... | |
| Military art and science - 1946 - 1288 pages
...fundamental reason for maintaining an intelligence service as emphatically as it has even been stated : "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need...know yourself, but not the enemy, for every victory you will suffer a defeat. If you know neither, you •will always be beaten." Essentially, Greek and... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services - Censorship - 1962 - 2120 pages
...AND SELF Senator THURMOND. General Shoup, a Chinese general about 500 BC said, and I quote : If yiiii know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of 100 battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you «ill suffer a defeat.... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Armed Services - 1962 - 222 pages
...public. F. Evaluation A Chinese general, Sun Tzu, wrote in 500 BC in a work entitled "The Art of War": If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear a hundred battles. If you know yourself, but not the enemy, for every victory you will suffer a defeat.... | |
| Yang Shang, Jan Julius Lodewijk Duyvendak - China - 1928 - 384 pages
...£,, "gf ig^^.^^n^ffii^n a. — J» - - ft. * to®. •'P £P £i 4$ ®5 $t Jh- "Hence the saying: 'If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need...you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will run risks in every battle.' " 4 And not to individual merit. * The text has -E^ gJC 3i£ |§ . but... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services - 1977 - 1000 pages
...the systems we are developing will help us do so. An Oriental philosopher wrote, over 2500 years ago, "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. " We propose therefore to provide the committee with some observations on the strengths and weaknesses... | |
| Thomas Raphael Phillips - History - 1985 - 454 pages
...interfered with by the sovereign. Victory lies in the knowledge of those five points. Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need...enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. 4 TACTICAL DISPOSITIONS. Sun Tzu said: The good fighters of old, first put themselves beyond the possibility... | |
| 1994 - 233 pages
...THE BROAD VIEW OF COMMAND AND CONTROL C2 INFORMATION INTENSIVE Some 2,600 years ago, Sun Tzu wrote, If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need...the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.5 While the face of war has changed considerably in the intervening centuries, C2 is still information... | |
| Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...the right enemies. BISHOP JOHN SPONG (b. 1931), US ecclesiastic. Guardian (London. 20 My 1988). 22 (6-5TH CENTURY BC), Chinese general. The Art of War, ch. 3, Axiom 18 (c. 490 BC. ed. by James Clavell,... | |
| Chuck Laughlin, Karen Sage - Business & Economics - 1994 - 180 pages
...of being a samurai. The first rule of competition is to get to know your competitor. Sun Tsu wrote, "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need...enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle." Knowledge of your competitors includes knowledge of their companies, their products, and their service.... | |
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