敵が自分を知る以上に、自分を知っていれば、決して負けることはない
敵が自分を知る以上に、自分が敵を知れば、敵を倒すことができる
問題は、人々が自分の敵が誰であるかを知らないことです。そもそも敵がいるのかどうかもわからない。ほとんどの場合、自分たちが求める敵の正体について誤解しているのだ
(Deep l)
Terrible machine translation
The gist is to focus on yourself and know yourself better than your adversary and you will never fear a defeat.
Everything else does not matter. Your adversary will naturally present itself, do not seek your adversary for you may find yourself in bad company, a false adversary, a compromising position, or any number of bad situations.
The behavior of the enemy is secondary to the behavior of yourself. Make yourself unpredictable and you make the enemy unable to predict you. The behavior of the enemy is only necessary if it affects you, if it does not it is a waste of time, it is a expense of resources and you will likely be exhausted making you vulnerable.
Always assume your enemy is more competent, therefore you will not slacken and present yourself to be vulnerable to the enemy. Actual enemy characteristics does not matter over knowledge of you own abilities. position and strength is necessary knowledge for defeat in detail of the enemy, but obstructing that knowledge to the enemy will prevent your defeat.
Let the Enemy seek you out, let him exhaust his resources, let him stretch his lines and forces. The greater the area they search the easier for your force to defeat the greater force. Be as mobile as possible to keep the enemy guessing where you'll be. Always tread on land you are familiar with but never make predictable paths of your travels.
I never read sun tzu btw, this all just comes out of my intuition, idk if this stuff is included or recommended or if it is similar to his strategy but if it's not then I say mine is better than his because he lost. It won't work for trying to conquer or subjugate someone. I don't believe that actually works. Maybe through pestilence or the other more divine methods of destruction and human suffering could extermination happen but the spirit of different people will not break, only wane.