"Adversity can be a harsh teacher," he wrote. In his memoir, "One Soldier's Story," Dole wrote that his experiences in World War II defined his life. He dedicated his life to serving you, and so it is heartwarming that so many honor him at his passing. "Bob Dole was never only ours - we shared him with Americans from every walk of life and every political persuasion. So much on the subject of energy.Įnglish translation via the Internet Classics Archive."Thank you for the outpouring of love over the last year, it continues to sustain us as we grieve the loss of the precious man we knew as husband and father," the Dole family said in a statement Sunday. Thus the energy developed by good fighting men is as the momentum of a round stone rolled down a mountain thousands of feet in height. For it is the nature of a log or stone to remain motionless on level ground, and to move when on a slope if four-cornered, to come to a standstill, but if round-shaped, to go rolling down.Ģ3.
When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become as it were like unto rolling logs or stones. Hence his ability to pick out the right men and utilize combined energy.Ģ2. The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals. By holding out baits, he keeps him on the march then with a body of picked men he lies in wait for him.Ģ1.
He sacrifices something, that the enemy may snatch at it.Ģ0.
Thus one who is skillful at keeping the enemy on the move maintains deceitful appearances, according to which the enemy will act. Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of subdivision concealing courage under a show of timidity presupposes a fund of latent energy masking strength with weakness is to be effected by tactical dispositions.ġ9. Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline, simulated fear postulates courage simulated weakness postulates strength.ġ8. Amid the turmoil and tumult of battle, there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all amid confusion and chaos, your array may be without head or tail, yet it will be proof against defeat.ġ7. Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow decision, to the releasing of a trigger.ġ6. Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his onset, and prompt in his decision.ġ5. The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.ġ4.
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The onset of troops is like the rush of a torrent which will even roll stones along in its course.ġ3. Who can exhaust the possibilities of their combination?ġ2. It is like moving in a circle-you never come to an end. The direct and the indirect lead on to each other in turn.
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In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack-the direct and the indirect yet these two in combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers.ġ1. There are not more than five cardinal tastes (sour, acrid, salt, sweet, bitter), yet combinations of them yield more flavors than can ever be tasted.ġ0. There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.ĩ. There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.Ĩ. Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.ħ.