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三十六计英文-Thirty-Six Stratagems 23. Befriend a distant state while attacking a neighbour 三十六计

三十六计英文

Thirty-Six Stratagems

 (三十六计法语-Les 36 stratagèmes)

24. Borrow a route to conquer Guo
This stratagem advises using an ally's strategic location as a launch point for your own troops. One benefit is that a "middleman" gets the heat, and your own homeland can be saved from becoming a battlefield. Another benefit is that your forces can be stationed longterm on friendly turf so that problems of supply line management are limited in severity. And a third benefit is that if your battle is successful, you now have your troops stationed in somebody else's kingdom.

Again, though a superficial glance shows that this stratagem opens the way for treachery and takeover, it can be used to allow for mutual benefit. Without attempting outright conquest, the US has stationed troops in other countries as part of NATO agreements and has thus persuaded weaker allies to send their best and brightest to US schools, to trade ideas with us, and to become more open to the products that we market. The strategy has also given our own young men and women the opportunity to see other cultures and get a better picture of the vastness of the world in which we live. While US policy overseas has not been perfect, by borrowing a route to defend Europe and America from Russian Communism, the US also helped defuse radical fascism and present lawful democracy to the world as a successful form of government.

Husbanding your strength is the principle on which this stratagem rests. As Sun Tzu has noted, the ideal situation is one in which you conserve your own energy while forcing the opponent to use up his energy. Thus, gaining benefit from others outside the fray is another means of preserving your resources. Hiring lawyers, spokespeople, agents, and personal representatives are all ways in which people today borrow a route in order to conquer. They hire others to take on the responsibilities and pressures of a given conflict. Any time you persuade or hire somebody to act as your middleman or representative, you have borrowed a route to conquer Guo, buffering yourself as you pursue your campaign.

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