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三十六计英文-Thirty-Six Stratagems 22. Bolt the door to catch the thief 三十六计
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23. Befriend a distant state while attacking a neighbour
This stratagem has two applications: the first is the more obvious. Avoid a
two-front war by making peace with everybody else before you go to war against
an opponent. Additionally, if you have two battles to fight, it's wiser first to
fight the one that is near at hand. But to do this, you must try to gain at
least a temporary peace with the less emergent battle. One writer observes that
a parent with a teen age son who eats junk food and drives too fast will first
allow the junk food in order to focus on the battle of building responsibility
in the boy's driving practices.
The second, less apparent application of this stratagem is that your route of
advance must be organized. Sometimes, winning one battle makes the next battle
easier to win. The order of operation can make your battles easier. In
two-on-one fighting in taekwondo, the lone defender keeps moving so that the
less aggressive of two attackers stays between the defender and the more
aggressive attacker. This tactic wears out the aggressor in the middle and
exposes him to deliberate kicks and punches from the defender and accidental
kicks and punches from his ally. Thus, by economical maneuvering, the defender
can whittle away one opponent. When the "man in the middle" gives up or goes
down, the defender can then concentrate on a single opponent. But if the
defender focuses on the stronger, more aggressive opponent first, then the
defender gets tied up in earnest fighting, and the weaker attacker can do him
serious harm.
Situation and ability will often determine the best order of operation in a
battle, but---as Sun Tzu wrote---it's usually wisest to husband your energy and
resources while making your opponents spend up their energy and resources.
三十六计英文-Thirty-Six Stratagems 24. Borrow a route to conquer Guo
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