Charles Anspach
“The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue.”
Long before the era of Mao Zedong, Sun Tzu discussed how “the difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain” in The Art of War.1 With clear parallels to the critical vulnerabilities and centers of gravity of Marine Corps maneuver doctrine, it seems apparent that Sun Tzu was something of an ancient “manueverist” himself. Was this manueverist mindset solely Sun Tzu’s, though? Or was Sun Tzu simply writing about the Chinese way of war? And, if so, how do these methods differ from our own?
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