Bandwagoning is a strategy for the weak.

 

Bandwagoning is a strategy for the weak.
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Chapter 5, Strategies for Survival, p. 163

 

John J. Mearsheimer

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Some other schools have a liking for extra-long swords. From the point of view of my strategy these must be seen as weak schools. This is because they do not appreciate the principle of cutting the enemy by any means. Their preference is for the extra-long sword and, relying on the virtue of its length, they think to defeat the enemy from a distance.
In this world it is said, "One inch gives the hand advantage", but these are the idle words of one who does not know strategy. It shows the inferior strategy of a weak sprit that men should be dependant on the length of their sword, fighting from a distance without the benefit of strategy.

 

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The gaze should be large and broad. This is the twofold gaze "Perception and Sight". Perception is strong and sight weak.
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Isn't it extraordinary that the Prime Minister of our country can't even urge his Party to back his own position. Weak! Weak! Weak!

 

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In strategy you must know the Ways of other schools, so I have written about various other traditions of strategy in this the Wind Book.

 

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