my book: The Art of War and Martial Arts

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The Art of War and Martial Arts

Preface

The Art of War is an ancient military treatise wrote by Sun Tzu (or Sun Zi, or Sun Wu) as a manual of how a general should act.
Altough it’s write how to conduct an army, it writes about a greater thruth, and can be used in other areas, like business, life management, games(chess,chinese chess, weiqi(go) and others), sports, politics etc. and , as you will see in this book, martial arts. I have succesfully used it in medicine and in the study of the Yi Jing(an ancient chinese classic that uses the same theory of yin and yang, but don’t divide things in two parts, divide in 64). It is incredible The Art of War is regarded as a highly influential book in so many areas and in the martial arts(martial=Mars, the roman version for Aries, the greek god of war, meaning war; martial arts, literary the art of war.) it is neglegected, where it should be to the martial artist(even more to chinese martial arts practioners) as the Bible is to a Christians.
There’s various books on military strategies, business strategies, games strategies and sports strategies using Sun Tzu; in this book, although it will help comprehend Sun Tzu as a whole, and I have some knowledge in other areas(mainly war,games,and sports) I use the martial arts as examples and explanations, an area that I think I have some level of proficiency, and, that I know, is not already done and need desperately of help.
Don’t use this book as a simple translation, there’s more capable people for doing this, if you prefer use it with your favorite translation. This book is far from exhausting the subject, it represent only my ongoing studies.

10 commandments of the art of war

1-Chapter 1:”While hearing my counsels, then acting according circunstances, and search for assistance in the unexpected. In circunstances, if it seems favorable, adjust the commands.”

Adapt and even break the art of war rules if is suitable to the situation.

2-Chapter 1:”Sun Tzu said: War, a vital aspect to the country”

Don’t neglect war, its vital to your life.

3-Chapter 1:“The art of war, the way of deception”

War is based on mislead the opponent.

4-Chapter 1:“Attack where they are not prepared, appear where they have no idea.”

The power of initiative,surprise and inovation.

Art of war 孙子兵法 Sūnzǐ bīnfǎ

Chapter 1 : Initial Plans 始計 shǐjì

This chapter deals with the initial choices regarding war, altough by its name you may think it refers to the people planning what to do in an already estabilished war, its use is way before any war was declared, before any threat aproaching.

“Sun Tzu said: War, a vital aspect to the country, place of life and death, the way to exist or perish, that you can’t ignore.”

War is a vital aspect of a nation, in the martial arts context, our lives. Even when we are not in a state of war and killing enemies, it is the only thing that prevent the country for been invaded, that the robbers take control of your possessions, that chaos is spread across the country. Like Martial arts, and you will see throught this book, fight is just one aspect of war, “conquer the enemy without fighting is the excellence of war”.

“Experiencing between five things, thaught in the plans, and should take in consideration in the situation: First is said to be principles, second is said to be heaven, third is said to be the earth, fourth is said to be commandership, fifith is said to be means.The reason causes the ordered people to be in accord with the commanders, through death, through life, will not be danger”

If you act according to the principles, with a just cause, people will come to aid, and your actions, though drastic, will not be punished. If you help a woman in a sexual attempt and severily damage someone you still will be on the right side, if you stop a robber no one we’ll see you as a bad guy attacking other human being, but will see you as a hero. Of course what seem right for other people or after some time can be considered wrong and vice-versa, decide what is wrong or right is a extensive subject and you can find more on the theme on diverses philosophies and religions. In the context of war it is not much philosofical, it is simply pratical: acting according to the current practices; of course depending of your strategy acting in favor of some minories and what should be considered the principle in the future may fit your plans.

“Heaven, light and darkness, cold and heat, the system of time.”

Altough the effects of climate is more rigorous on a army on march having to travel long distances outdoors, it can also affect a martial artist. For example in heat you waste more energy with your movements, in heat there’s less garment and less place to be used in the judo kumikata (hold), cold more.
Light (not only natural light) means safety that there’s more people and you’ll be easyly seen if you need help
Time like knowing when people will pass certain places or a group of people will assemble, or will part a reunion and you be leaved alone.

“Earth, distant and close, danger and safety, wide and narrow, life and death.”

Earth, as you can see, deals with space, distance is very used in martial arts in the range of moves: kicks should and are more effectve at the most distance, altough missing the right range and throwing a kick in a too distant oponnent can have negative effects; punchs are the next, straight punches like jabs and cross(straights) and the chinese basic puches first, cross and uppercut, where you bend your arm, next; the close range are the knees ,elbows and headbutt, and grappling to close range. Off course there’s exceptions, for example the superman punch, a jumping/long overhead punch.
Danger and safety deals with the sorrounds, the places that should be followed and those that shouldn’t.
Wide and narrow, should have mention not only narrow and wide places, but to narrow and wide formations of the troops, since the martial artist don’t have this ability, we will deal with the former.
Wide and narrow deals mainly with the space for maneuverability, ehere you can use space for footwork, movimentation and escape, lack of space could mean even that some moves can’t be used, but can have others advantages as using the walls as support for not been taken down or been pushed.
Life and danger has similar concepts of danger and safety, in a army you should know how to manage death and healing(life). In a fight means the knowledge of your body, the places that causes death or injuries at you and your opponent. The different types of damages, permanent in certain circunstances, such punishments and long term fighting, and non permanents in others, like separating a conflict between friends.

“Command, knowledge, trustworthyness, humanity, braveness, rigorousness.”

This may refers to the master(the person that teachs martial arts to the pupil). Altough you may think command as just relationship between more than one people, it also refers to individuals; how you command your life, your training, etc.
Knowledge is required to understand the fundamentals of war us and the world around us, so we can take the right decisions.
Trustworthyness your reputation, that your enemies and allies can trust in you, and knowing when the moment that you should backstab them too.
Humanity, shows the hability to comprehend the human passions, fears and ambitions; not only to be good, as you can see contrast to the item rigorousness.
Braveness, essential to the warrior as without it he or she doesn’t carry his actions to the completion, since in war there’s always an iminent imediate risk.
Rigorousness the ability to mantain strict order between the subordinates, applying punishments; For the teachers, first try to teach softly at first, but if they don’t respond to this approach, or are not disciplined enough to respond to the orders, try some form of punishment. For example, teaching boxe, your pupil refuses to keep your hands up, use some sparing and chastise it with punch, and he’ll soon learn to keep his or her hands up to avoid the pain; contrary to what one may think at first, you are not simply beeing to harsh, you are teaching like we chastise children or adults(prisons, etc), you may be saving his or her life, since they could be involved in a real fight where such errors will lead to severe damage. Furthermore, that is the best way to teach a lesson to someone, if you simply say a order to someone he or she may be too cocky and think that the way they do is best than yours, and, if you punish by other means or threats, they may obey but still think that is not the way this should be done; by punishing and showing them why what they’re doing are wrong, and that it doesn’t work, they will follow your orders without doubt(if the master is too old and cannot offer a significant oposition, a more advanced or others martial artists should be employed with the instruction to exploit this weakness, if even then they succeed, you should consider that is your system that is wrong, or, at least, doing that way work for him or her even if not work for other because of some peculiarities, such as ability, size, etc). For the martial artist means the auto-discipline. War probably will punish severily the not disciplinates, but is responsability of the comander, or ourselves to use punishments before more severe punishiments happens.

“Means, the system of division, the communications to the officials, the individual use”

The system of division, both the ranks that mantain order in more than one groups, and the division into managable groups that can perform diferent tasks(for example one group to use in a frontal attack and other to attack one of the flanks). Lionel Giles says this refer to the supply lines.
The communications to the officials, the way the orders can be carried out through the ranks in wider missions.
The individual use, the use of weaponry, uses of lethal and non lethal weapon for advanced forces, broken glass, knifes, pieces of wood, everything can became a weapon, chairs, door slams, pieces of decoration, etc , armor (for advanced forces bullet proof vests, helmets, etc., for martial artists protection like mouth pieces, groin protectors, footwear(protect both against undesirable dangers on the ground like broken glasses and others obstacles, and confer protection and power for kicks) etc.

“Through this five items, that no one general ever did not heard, is possible to predict the winner. Know these and you will win, do not know these and you will fail. In preparing the plans, and analysing the situation, can be said: Mainly who follows the principles?,”

See the item number 1, principles.

“Whom General are more capable?”
Whom has the better general (teacher) who can properly train his student, whom student has the power to apply commandership over his or her life.

“Whom possesses heaven and earth?
i.e. Knows the whole situation (not only heaven earth in the sense of the five items, but as used a general chinese expression meaning “everything”)

“Whom orders are carried through?”

Is not enough to have a good general, or teacher, if it is not listened, if we know the means to win a fight but don’t use this knowledge it has no use.

“Whom of the numerous army are better?”

The word used in chinese is 強qiáng, strong, though the words also carries the sense of better, superior (see “though we are in less numbers, we can defeat them”), One of the Gracie (family that created brazilian jiujitsu) family members put it as a fundamental question to martial arts: How can a weaker opponent defeat a stronger? And offer taking a opponent to the ground, where strikes are less effective and techinique could have more chance of winning. Similar answers are offered by the soft/internal martial arts (aikido, judo, taiqiquan(taichichuan), etc.), although It’s would be a mistake that external/hard styles don’t know to compensate the lack of strenghth, with footwork, speed, technique,etc. But the advantage generally lies with the stronger, you can see this by the weight divisions that generally are used in martial sports.

“Whom soldiers are more trained?”

Now we see the importance of, not only knowing the theory, but put it in practice until we know all the variants of the basic rules and exceptions (there are only 5 colors, 5 tastes, 2 methods of atack, but they produce more variantions than can be seen)(the general should know to act according to the circunstances), and reproduce this methods through repetition until we can’t forgot and use them as a second nature, not requiring too much thinking. Repetition don’t mean repetition of rigids patterns, is quite the contrary(“don’t make a victory make you repeat paterns”).

“Whom punishment and reward are more clear?”

Punishment, as discussed early, should be used if necessary.
Rewards, like making your classes less repetitive and boring, congratulating the good work of your students; while you train you should stabilish reachable goals and praises when they are reached. The most obvious example of rewards that come to mind is the judo, afterward used in karate and other martial arts, color belts.

“Then I know the victorious and the loser. The General that listen to my plans, your use will certainly be victorious, he must stay; The General that do not listen to my plans, your use will certainly bring defeat, dismiss him”

This demonstrate the exact porpose of this book, to advise the use of generals, altough, say about conflict, one of the most intetests that raise whatever there are more then one being in existence, and can be used in other areas.

“While hearing my counsels, then acting according circunstances, and search for assistance in the unexpacted. In circunstances, if it seems favorable, adjust the commands.”

Anyone can know every word of the art of war but this don’t mean they understand war; everybody can perform some forms(katas) and predefined execises but this don’t make them warriors. The real Masters and fighters are those who can adapt to the circunstance, and would be impossible to be taught how to act in all circunstances( “there are only 5 tastes, five musical notes, to types of attack, but combined then produce more circunstances than one can imagine), and even broken express rules of this book, or principles of a martial art, when this is favorable.

“The art of war, the way of deception”

As in the passage “know your enemy and know yourself and every battle you will be victorious”, it’s of vital importance that the enemy, not only by his ignorance, but by your means of concealing your plans, and not knowing us, they can only know themselves, and be more sucetible to defeat. This can be maid by using diversions(literary and figuratively throwing something in the opposite direction you are distracting the attention of your enemies; if you attacking by surprise or trying to bypass a group, you can call their attention by throwing an object in the oposite side that you are, given a moment to scape or attack by surprise; in a fight you can throw a right punch just to halt, and if their attention turned to their left side throw a right punch, with similar effects with others combinations, one of the most used strategies of brazilian jiujitsu is fake a high attack(generally a punch, and, whith the defenders attentions to maintain the arms high and a high posture, go low to a double leg take down, I imagine striker could do exactly the opposite, fake a kumikata (hold to the garment, or a double leg take down dive, and the normal reaction of the grapplers is to maintain a low position and drop the arms to protect against the hold of the legs, rendering their face completely exposed to a quick punch) feints(quickly show you will do something and do something else), mainteining our plans secret until the last moment or given false information about what you do.(“these Plans should not be informed beforehand”).

“In the case you can; show that you cannot. Employing something, show you can’t use; close, show you are distant; distant show you are close. If in advantage entice him, simulate disorder and take him.”

Never start a fighter going agressively toward your enemy showing a fighter stance with the enemy knowing that you’ll fight; for example, approach him calmly if as if you’are going to talk and then start your attack, or if your opponent already shows a predisposition of fight, talk calmly as if you are don’t want to fight, if he is far away, generally there will be people trying to separate the fight, show your unwillimg of fight só the people will not hold you tight, maybe try to approach with your hand streched as if you’re trying a reconciliation and strike him. If the aggressor comes to you stay in a neutral position if you want to avoid a fight, but keep your eyes fixed in the opponent, mantain the hands high but not in a fight instance, perhaps stroking the chin or gesticulating and they will be ready to come to use, and if the fight don’t occur do not turn your back to him.
Fighters with a good sense of measurement, can make you think they are out of range where they can execute a flying kick, a superman punch, a deep step attack; and can make you think you are close enough to attack but are in the exact limit of the extension of the strike, where, if they hit, they can easily be dodge.
If in a advantage entice him, principally if he is in a favorable position, simulate disorder( the text is a little vague (don’r have a subject), it is supposed that he is still talking about deceiving the enemy, but the translation” when the enemy is in disorder take him” is still possible) , for example pretending a strike really hurt you rendering you out of combat, when in reallity you’re prepared and ready to counter-attack.

“if they are solid, be prepared for then; better then avoid them; if he has anger, irritate him, if he is humble, make him arrogant; if idle make then act; united then separate them.”

Solid here, probably holding an advantage or defensive stance, and is not beneficial in this moment a attack, control yourself and be prepared for the right moment to counter-attack; this is another example that escaping should not be employed as only vaible strategy, or else, against a solid(without weakness and prepared), Sun Tzu would advise to use evasive manuveurs like in the next phrase. But when the enemy is already prepared for the battle, and guarded of these possibilities, simply fleeing would open more weaknesses in one’s composition.
If the enemy is better (here the word used again is 强qiáng strong), this don’t mean necessarily giving up the fight, but wait for a more apropriated moment to atack. I’ve seen most untrainned people using the strategy of running while facing combat, as if it were the only strategy you will ever need, wich is sometimes a bad strategy; if you’re to close to your opponent you wiil open a breach while you’re turning exposing your back that can be exploited by the attacker; running, if you are older, fattier then the attacker, seddentary or phisically non-gifted, or generally if is a woman facing a man, is not a good idea, as the attacker will certainly catch up, with you in a very vulnerable way as you are not grounded while running and with your back exposed, with little options of defense and counter attack( altough they exist, the most important is a back kick and an elbow, or maybe the famous back fist to the back used by Bruce Lee, or the rise-fall-overturn styles of baguazhang attack, but as I said, just running will not solve all your problems), if you and them are in a confined place there’s no place to run, with more then one opponent this should be difficult too, if they are holding you should know at least how to break the hold. The act of avoiding sometime will cause some kind of damage, lost a opportunity of gaining a victory or lost a important place, but is necessary, remember the saying ”live to fight another day”.
Irritate an oponent and have to manage him with all his energy and fury surely is tricky, and most of the time not the most suitable strategy. Its probably used best when your opponent is taken defensive manuveries and taken advantegeous positions, and you’re better then the opponent and his fury will only make expose his oppenings. If he is humble make his proud have similar effects.
If idle make him act, gave him no rest, altough this mean we will have ourselves to use energy, and here is the key to this strategy, making them using more energy then us, or if is paid the trade-off. If they need adjust their plans give him not this opportunity, atack relentless to cause stress.
If united separete them, sow discord among them, make their ambitions enter in conflict, make them distrust each other.

“Attack where they are not prepared, appear where they have no idea.”

This demonstrate both the power of initiative and surprise, and the power of innovation. Something, simply by not beeing conventional, will render the already known counter-meassures useless, and make the necessity of a great capacity of adaptation of the opponent, running against the clock as the attack will give only a few moments to react to it. Of course something non-convetional is something that the most capable strategist do not tought, or were dismissed as a viable strategy, with great probability that is not a good plan, and should only be employed if you really know what you are doing.

“These plans that bring victory, must not be spread beforehand”
Less people know about the plans, less the chance of the enemy knowing them, even among your must trusted allies, should be said as later as possible, as can be betrails and spies.

“The man, not yet fighting, and while in the reunion predict victory, should be calculated a lot. Not yet fighting, and while in reunion predict a defeat, should be calculated a little. Much calculations lead to victory, few to defeat, imagine a situation where there is no calculation at all! I observing these terms, see the victory and defeat.”

A fight is won or lost way before it starts. Chosing the best martial art, or at least the best that fill your needs, the strategies you will employ in your trainings. The whole Art of War don’t touch a word on tactics of war; how many archers you should employ, where the charriots should go, the weapons and how they should be used in actual fight. “Conquer the enemy without even fighting is the excellency of war”.”Everyone sees the tactics that lead me to win, but no one saw the strategies that made me victorious”. Of course dismissing the importance of tactics and martial moves is a incorrect procedure.

Chapter 2: Making war作戰zuòzhàn

The name of this chapter is a little misleading, it not talk about the actual fight but the preparations for a already estabilished war; for now, you will be already acquinted to the importance that Sun Tzu gives to the preparation, making war without the following deliberations would not make sense. Since this chapter deals with exactly how to deal with troops, provisions, and exact calculations as number of troops and meassures, that would not be very important to the martial context, and even a restricted use in modern warfare. I will not translate the entire chapter, only some important points and make my own descriptions of the preparation of war.

In modern personal warfare, generally there’s nothing a clear attacking group or individual and a defending one. In self defense generally there will be a, principally unexpected attacker and a surprised defender. It’s important that the defender be prepared by using a non-lethal weapon, like pepper spray, or lethal, like portable knifes that could be hidden and, in a last case, a gun; of course you may not always have these equipaments at disposal, hand to hand combat is necessary. You could use unexpectd things as weapons, like pieces of furniture, broken bottles in a bar, a pen, etc. Cell phones, or an artifact that generate a great amount of noise should be brought if possible as they could be needed to ask for help. The proper warm-up should be employed since fast movements could be needed suddenly.

“Altough in military affairs we have heard of dull haste, I have not seen skillfullness in delays”

Altough, as said, the haste of the people that don’t know a skill is well known, the delays exahust the energies and resources, and gives the enemy a confortable position where he can even take the initiative.

“The long warfare and the good conditions of the nation, can’t coexist”

Prolonged warfare will only exahust the resources(in the martial case energy) and bring opportunities to the opponent react. This could be a sign that Sun Tzu saw advantage in attacking, altough exceptions may apply and the right opportunity should be sought, the advantages of a swift conclusion to the war is tempting.

“Use provisions of the enemy, then the food for the army will be sufficient.”

In the Martial context, you should steal the enemy weapon, and in this case any weapon at range( since the weapon would be in territory enemy every weapon in range were enemy weapon, even those that they’re not using.) This is very used in martial arts especialized in white weapons and fire arms that you should use their weapon against him, altough it’s not exactly the strategy I would use. The energy and focus of the attack will be tottaly turned to the weapon, make really difficult to disarm him or her; I would use a contrary aproach, not use complex movements to use the gun against the attacker(that certainly is more dificult than it seems in demonstration against non resisting and without projectils (how should we know if the attacker had the opportunity to fire at us before we complete our movements in such demonstrations?))(“the general don’t expect much of the individuals”, the rule of simplicity, using a simply deflect, and the attentions of the attacker at the weapon rendering them wide open to any sort of moves(this should work at least for a trained martial artist capable of powerful and fast damage by strikes, or locks and throws).

“For killing the enemy, anger is necessary.”
This seems to be contrary to some philosophies as of the aikido, chinese internal martial arts, etc. But don’t understimate the power of anger; the word here is not exactly anger(altough correctly translated, the idea of the use of anger that is different), not anger when you lose your control and do things hastly without thinking, but probably in the use as something like “fighting spirit”, “desire to win”.

Chapter 3: The plans of attack 謀攻móugōng

“The person using the art of war, getting the intact country is the best, a destructed country comes next; getting a intact army is the best, a destructed army comes next, a intact regiment is the best, a destructed regiment comes next; getting a detachment is best, a destructed detachment comes next. Getting a squad of five soldier is best, a destructed squad of five soldiers comes next.”

This is basically the idea of “use provisions of the enemy, then the food for the army will be sufficient”; is better to get the enemy and use it for your pourposes than to destroy it. This could refer even to not make war to a country, army, a enemy, etc., and simply use them as allies, by bribing them or convincing them to join your cause , by your principles, by their fear of losing the fight,etc.; I use the word “getting” and not “capture” because of this.

“In happening a hundred fights and a hundred victories, is not the best among the virtuousity, not fighting and breaking the enemy army, is the best of virtuousity”

This exposes two thruths about war. The first is that the results of a battle is chaotic and there’s chances that not reflect the ability of the generals or the armies, represented in the martial arts by the tutors or the fighters, every one could win a battle against Sun Tzu with a hundred of fantastic fighters against a single mediocre men, but how many people could develope the theories of war and write a book as the Art of War? Results in such conditions should not be taken seriously; This should not be used as an excuse of not exposing the theories of fighting of the masters and abilities of the warrior to concret tests, as sun tzu said “adjust your plans accordingly to the circunstances”.
The Second is that winning without the risks of a battle, that is, as I said, chaotic and results are difficult to predict, is better to win with other means as diplomacy, making a third part wage war agains your opponent, etc, but in martial arts context they seldom have use, because battle happens to fast and with non-collaborative agressors. Of course, again, thinking that only this would assure you victory and that you don’t need an army, in the martial context knowledge of fighting techniques, is a wrong strategy, just read the whole art of war.

“In the instance of the military plans of attack, the first is attack the junction of armys, next attack the army, next besiege walls.”

The best is to attack a not prepared opponent “appear where you are not expected”, you should try to attack a distracted opponent or when he think you will not attack him. After that comes actually fight the opponent in a sudden and violent battle. And last a prepared opponent, like a town circled by walls, maybe the opponent already called for help, take an advantageous position, this should be avoided. Follow a phrase on the preparation of an attack on a walled city of little use in the martial context.

“The general that cannot defeat his anger and his ants beating the doors of the wall, will kill one-third of his soldiers, and the wall will not yield, this attack will certainly result in disaster.”

The phrase to translate this concept is “live to fight another day”. If you can’t win because your opponent is in better conditions, patience is essential, to lure him, distract and attack him, wait reinforcements or even desist.

“In the occurrence of virtue in military methods, control the army of people without fighting, tear down the walls of peoples without attacking it, destroy the people country’s without delays.”

Again shows the strategies that sun tzu was found, and again the alert that war is a priority “war, is a vital aspect to the country”.

Chapter 4: The formation of the army 軍形jūnxín

“In the good battles of older times, first acted as not allowing victory, then waited in the enemy the opportunity of defeating”

The translation is a little strange and dubios exactly because I wished to transmit the vagueness of the chinese text. The interpretation of this phrase could mislead the idea of the entire art of war and should be taken seriously. The obvious translation would be “In the good battles of older times, they first acted as not allowing the enemy victory, and, only then, waited the opportunity of defeating the enemy.”, with meaning that we should focus more on defense than in attack; I can’t help but imagine this is just a reverence to the importance that good warriors gave to defense because of the, as said before, dull hasteness of the non acquinted and with a subject and the lack of self control of the inexperients. Is even possible to translate this line as (not supported by me) an idea of “In the good (the best they could do) battles of older times, first acted as not allowing the victory, then waited the opportunity of defeating the enemy, but, now that we are more advanced to not repeat this error, we know that attention should be given to initiative and attack”.
The key to understand this passage is watching the context, If you see the phrases that follow you’ll see the idea of giving more importance to defense is as a wrong idea, and, if you go further, and take the context of the whole art of war, you’ll see that this idea is completely misleading: Why “appear in unexpected places” would make sense, you should stay on defense guarding against an attack; “hold bait so to entice the enemy”,”feign disorder and crush him”, why should we expose something to offer as bait, where we should be guarding our position; by these deliberations we see that the idea of the art of war is quite the contrary of the suggested.

“The impossibility of winning is in ourselfs, the possibility of defeating is in the enemy”

Again the text is vague. I, and most people, interprete as “The impossibility of us beeing defeated is in our hands, the possibility of defeating the enemy is in the hands of the enemy” meaning that our defeat is an impossibility of not guarding against defeat, including acting too defensively and give all the initiative and possibilities of attack to the opponent. But should not be taken serious as to punish ourselfs for certain errors since very good fighters make you make mistakes, for example losing a battle to Sun Tzu don’t mean our completely inability, but the impossibility to match the skills of him. I imagine the idea is of self-improvment, “if we could adpated better”, “if we could take this point first”,”if we could have defended that location”.
Defeating the enemy, again, lies in the incapacity of him to match our skills and making a mistake, that could even be forced by ourselves.