"Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources."

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Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general is responsible. These are: (1) Flight; (2) insubordination; (3) collapse; (4) ruin; (5) disorganisation; (6) rout.

— Sun Tzu