To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.

One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.

Be where your enemy is not.

The Sun Tzu School (which wrote the Art of War) surely never imagined that their antiwar, pro-empire treatise would become known and accepted after the fall of the first empire as a text on military...

The Sun Tzu School Ping-fa Directive. Be strong and continually aware. Manage your strength and that of others. When essential, engage on your terms. Be observant, adaptive, and subtle. Do not lose control. Act decisively....

[…]you don’t have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy, it’s about scaring him enough to call it a day.

But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.