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THE ART OF CATWAR Visual Notes to learn Strategy

JOANNE CHANG

THE ART OF CATWAR Visual Notes to learn Strategy

JOANNE CHANG

Contents Chapter 1 Basic Principles Q1. What are the 3 key points to the Art of War? Q2. What is the basic quality of strategic operations?

Q3. What should I think about before planning for a war?

Q4 How do I win with minimal conict?

Chapter 2 Useful Tips #1 Build Momentum #2 Monitor Weakness and Strengths #3 Be Different #4 Train your Judgement #5 Be familiar with surroundings

Chapter 1

Basic Principles

Q1. What are the 3 key points to the Art of War?

Avoid the Strong, Attack the Weak

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Know Yourself and the Enemy

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Win Without Destroying

Winning 100 victories in 100 battles is not real excellence

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Q2. What is the basic quality to strategic operations?

Deception

The basic quality of any strategic operation

Pretend to delay action

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hit when unexpected

evade when they are strong

set one party against another when united

wear them out when well rested

take precautions against the strong and well prepared

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Q3. What should I think about before planning for war?

The Path to the Heart

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Friendly path flowers

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The Five Factors

When conflict occurs, we should compare the conditions of ourselves and our opponent from the five factors in order to forecast victory before the start of war.

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Openness

Leadership

Management

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Make Calculations

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Keep Making Progress

Every win counts.

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Know the 9 War Grounds

Focal ground

First to gain control acquire s upport of other peers.

Form alliances.

Dispersive ground

Your territory. Unify your will, do not ďŹ ght here.

Encircled ground

Access is constricted, a return requires detour.

Ambush the strong here. Devise escape plans, block the points of access.

Open ground Land accessible to both the enemy and yourself. Don’t let communication get blocked.

Defend yourself carefully.

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Serious ground Getting here requires the will to fight with no return. You have penetrated through the enemy’s deep inner grounds. Plunder for provisions.

Frontier ground

Initial entry into enemy grounds.

Keep going, be alert and maintain top performance.

Desperate ground Make a speedy and desperate battle here or else be destroyed. Be prepared to fight to the end.

Contentious ground Never attack the enemy that has reached here first

Difficult ground

Hard to make any moves here, pass through swiftly.

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Q4. How do I win with minimum conict?

Plan for a Victorious Disposition

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Reel in the Results

To defeat your enemy depends on their errors.

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Lead Others by the Nose

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Chapter 2

Useful Tips

#1

Build momentum

Stay Calm

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Find Friends

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#2

Monitor Weakness and Strengths

The Defensive and Offensive

When there is no chance of winning, assume a defensive position.

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When there is a chance, launch an attack.

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Weigh the Situations

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Limitations

When you take precautions in front, your rear will be weak.

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If you strengthen everywhere, you will be weak everywhere.

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Coordination

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When conflict occurs, we should compare the conditions of ourselves and our opponent from the five factors in order to forecast victory be-

If you cannot grasp a situation correctly, your left paw cannot help your right, let alone look for help.

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#3

Be Different

Master the Tactic of Deviation

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Follow your Own Intentions

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Do not expect that your opponent may not launch an attack, but count on the fact that you have made yourself invincible.

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#4

Train your Judgement

Beware of the 5 Advances

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The 5 Fatal Weaknesses

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Interpret Behavior

When they speak humbly while behaving When they speak humbly while behaving aggressive, they are going to advance aggressive, they are going to advance.

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When they speak uncompromisingly and threaten to When they speak uncompromisingly and advance, they are going to they retreat. threaten to advance, are going to retreat.

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#5

Be familiar with surroundings

Surroundings

Stay near the valleys when going through mountains; select a place on high ground facing the sun. Avoid ďŹ ghting an upward battle.

After crossing a river stay away from it. If the enemy attacks from across the river, do not meet him in the river.

Allow half their troops to cross then strike.

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Cross salt marshes quickly.

If you encounter enemies there, keep to places with grass and trees in the rear.

Select an easily accessible place on level ground to camp so that low ground is in front, high ground behind

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Avert Danger Heavy rainfall that ood rivers

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A hemmed in position as perilous as prisioneasy to get in, hard to get out. narrow pass between two precipitous mountains Deep gully with dangerous cliffs surrounding

Positions with overgrown grass and thickets

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