4 Tactical Dispositions | The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Animated)

[@Obtaineudaimonia]

"Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation." - *Max Euwe* *Contents* 0:00 - *Lesson 1:* Good Fighters Of Old 0:37 - *Lesson 2:* Opportunities From The Enemy 1:25 - *Lesson 3:* Secure Against Defeat 2:09 - *Lesson 4:* Take The Offensive 2:45 - *Lesson 5:* Strength 3:19 - *Lesson 6:* The Skilled General 4:22 - *Lesson 7:* Unique Knowledge 5:12 - *Lesson 8:* Sharp Sight And A Quick Ear 5:53 - *Lesson 9:* A Clever Fighter 6:36 - *Lesson 10:* Make No Mistakes 7:17 - *Lesson 11:* Victorious Strategists 7:59 - *Lesson 12:* Consummate Leaders 8:45 - *Lesson 13:* From Measurement To Victory 9:48 - *Lesson 14:* Victorious Armies 10:37 - *Lesson 15:* Momentum - Until next time, *Adam*

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Eudaimonia you deserve far more subscribers, keep up the good work!

[@dlon4539]

Many thanks

[@jessiebooker9711]

Eudaimonia Awesome the way you put it together good job

[@ME-kd1ko]

Few people realize this, but Max Euwe was a much greater sportsman than the boxers mentioned early in this video.

[@evanfaulk1071]

For #6 don't forget the interconnected tunnel system they also used to evade air/artillery, helped with ambushing, and were all over the country. Tunnels were extensive and often filled with dead ends and traps to discourage US troops who happen to find one.

[@davidwhitehead3089]

thanks for going to the trouble to make these, they are very good and very enjoyable to watch.

[@Obtaineudaimonia]

Thanks for watching. I'm glad they're enjoyable.

[@isaiahdobesh5109]

These are amazing

[@blingwraith6951]

BELISARIUS! Love that dude.

[@MichelleAckerStudios]

keep the great videos coming! awesome

[@poorboi8093]

11:27 this quote is key to life itself and in sports.

[@dallasjacob99]

I love to play civ, or xcom while listening to this lol

[@IspettoreCatiponda1]

Dallas The Mad works for EU4 as well :)

[@mrfantastic1946]

Escape from tarkov... Well actually listening while playing wouldn't be a good idea cause of how important sound is.

[@Lv-sl3rm]

Hearts of Iron 4 as well.

[@vanguardian1368]

Me n the bois restoring prussian discipline in vicky 2

[@DJK-cq2uy]

Wonderful

[@musawenkosigroup7962]

Thanks a lot for sharing

[@lesreed8803]

8:40 what the leader does others will copy Peer pressure does not affect the breadwinners are the ones that establishes trends to the lower-ranking order of operation

[@overlordweeb8405]

I feel like this guy can become a smart general

[@PersonalPower]

Great work! Can you do some more videos about aurelius and maybe roman or greek philosophies?

[@Obtaineudaimonia]

Yes. I will return to that subject at some point. Possibly after this series.

[@marxel4444]

8:40 montgomery when he restore moral and discipline in africa by taking command and prepare his troops for the 2nd battle of El-Alamein

[@DJK-cq2uy]

Big deal

[@a.e.8192]

what's the name of the symphony classical music?

[@lesreed8803]

Precisely the breadwinner is perceived to be the one of the most experienced I have recognized In these days, not so much 🤔👀🙈🤦🏽‍♂️😬

[@boris978]

Why listen to Sun Tzu when you have Grand Admiral Thrawn !

[@cristianvillanueva8782]

holy shit the king fought on the front line,Talk about for King and Country am i right?

[@rachdarastrix5251]

I'm surprised the Spartans did not just view going to the aid of Athens to help make peace as an insult. I mean like as in Sparta: "Are you kidding? We hate them even more then we hate you!" Although I suppose having dealt with them more often Athens probably knew some tips to cheer Spartans up where they are angry by then.

[@benquinney2]

Big mo

[@TheManofthecross]

and for that example there is the one thing that will throw it all off "acceptable losses" if one is prepaired to take the extra losses by using said means to deny the foe the use of said tactics then use them. have the mind set to deny the foe any possible tactic choices no matter what adtvantages and disadvantages you have will force them to fight on your terms.

[@geekers8644]

Was Hannibal black?

[@wickedAberration]

GEEKERS Dunno, but Carthage is, after all, in North Africa.

[@jordanzelch9508]

Hannibal was not black and neither was Carthage, he and Carthage was Phoenician.

[@kala-adaidakariopusunju6809]

Jordan Zelch yes he was Phoenecians were originally black.. And Hannibal was black.. at the very least not a white man, there was race mixing in pre Arab North Africa..

[@jordanzelch9508]

Kala-ada Idakari Opusunju, No Phoenicians are not black they are a people that are from the Levant region of the Middle East, close or around where Judea(Israel) is, they were close to the skin tone of the Jews, not black.The Carthaginians are descendants of Phoenicians from the levant that colonized North Africa and southern Spain.There was almost no one in North Africa until the Phoenicians got there.

[@anthonykelly7395]

Hannibal was Mediterranean. If you notice all the people's around the Mediterranean look similar. Spanish, Italian, Greek, Egyptian. It doesn't just magically stop at north Africa. "Black" people come from subsaharan Africa. North Africa is above the Saharan desert.

[@orangeiceice12]

Please go watch leewylies vid on the rumble in the jungle - that rope a dope shit is popular myth

[@Torthrodhel]

I wonder if these days the "make no mistakes" thing has had wide-ranging cultural damage. It is from mistakes that we learn. In a life or death situation, a mistake is bad but in all other situations, a mistake is good, and a victory actually only indicates that you did not select a sufficiently challenging task in the first place. But people - individual normal people fighting no life-or-death battle - go around deathly fearful of the slightest mistake out of terror of the perceived social inadequacy permanently badged upon them from it - it is the basis of so many mental disorders! This internal need to outwardly pretend perfection, borne of the inevitability of not being perfect. I wonder, in a society with greater understanding of the differences, would even a military battle matter that much? Or might this lesson be turned upon its head, should the culture be good enough to mainstreamly comprehend the value of learning from mistakes in the first place? Deadly mistakes or otherwise. Because yes, a sheer avoidable blunder is always a regrettable thing. But an unknowable result ventured and found lacking? This should be cause for celebration, not embarrassment, for now it is known what lacking requires, and hopefully thus closer to knowing what not lacking would require. Maybe in the battles of old fought with human lives, the cost was too unreplenishable for these things to matter. But nowadays with most battles being fought with robots that are not even merely fought over computer screens between money tallies? The material cost is not so overwhelming of other things. So I think it could matter. I must admit to wondering as I watch these, also, is there going to be a point reached at which is questioned: should you succeed in a war? Perhaps following: what society are you left with, from your success in a war? Since if you look around at most of the conflicts these days, they almost universally struggle in a mire of public distrust. As though they salted their own lands from what came before, in a public mindset sense of things. Who even believes in what they fight for any more? I don't know who would. I don't know why they would! When everyone above, lies to everyone below, about everything, and it is so universally known and time-and-again proven to be so. The only one thing I can imagine fighting for is the freedom of those around me that I know, and there is no government, organization, or any other similar body of power that could command an armed force that exists in this world that I can imagine going anywhere near representing that genuinely with a battle they would put someone in. I think they rely more on the innate drive of warrior-spirited people to need to fight, who then likely cling to excuses they know as excuses for the mere possibility of the random happenstance of them being not. Or maybe I am simply too used to bad leadership and have not lived under good, and thus missing the experience of knowing it. But is there an honest conflict out there, today? Can anyone say that? Romantically, I wonder if somewhere there couldn't emerge a force of some collection via a common moral imperative, that ignores all the deceptive advantages in order to remain superior in the moral imperative, and remain collected and thus supplied infinitely with desire and thus numbers via that. May not even need a leader. Very unconventional, almost a force of nature. So there is nothing lied about, not even to invoke anger, and should a failure be registered due to such? Then victory was not deserved, still the fight continues... amidst a populace not of a country nor a grouping or anything like that, but simply of the desire to not be governed by deception or the whims of unknowns any longer. Well, because... whenever anyone presents me with some kind of a guide or ruleset, no matter if it be a grand book of historical teaching or the latest throwaway crafting system in a mobile game... my first instinct is to find what breaks it, and break it. So I wonder if the moral imperative, so absent from the rest of these rules of engagement, could break it. Behind sufficient numbers, of course! But sufficient numbers maintained by its very purity of purpose... not impossible. Not impossible in this fucking crazy world as this, I think. Could happen. Or just as many wild imaginings, could maybe actually happen in a work of fiction, and then go on to disappointingly fail to happen in real life, where people are generally cowed to absurd levels of the assumption of inevitability, leading to mass inaction and the sectioning off of proper design and imagination into entertainment boxes. And hey! Here's a great work on war fighting, sectioned off into an entertainment box. So isn't that a thing! :) Cool video, like learning about this stuff.

[@MrNone-d5s]

there is no mistake in war that someone can learn from. Remember that this is warfare not life lessons.

[@mollywantshugs5944]

In life, if you make a mistake you learn from it. In war, if you make a mistake people (possibly including you) die. Thus, normal life and war must be differentiated.

[@mr.e7541]

Well I have no military experience and sun tzu definitely knows more than I do, I don't really agree with this section of the book as much. I don't think the advice of don't make mistakes is very good. Yes it's true but no one goes out with the intention of making mistakes. What you going to read this advice and be like you know what maybe I should stop making mistakes. That's like saying he who wins the battle is the one that doesn't get killed. Do someone else's point that you can't learn from mistakes in War I would say that is foolish. Yes you can in fact generals good generals I would say do learn from their mistakes and mistakes their opponents. They also say don't attack unless you're certain of Victory but other points in this book were all so say more reasonably in my opinion that you'll never really certain of victory from playing chess and other games I know that's when you're certain of victory that you're usually defeated. You should always consider what if your Victory isn't a certain as you think it is. What if what you perceive is that weakness is actually a trap. Also to your point about war this comes from the mentality that life is dog eat dog, Zero Sum game. Well this is true at times there's also other ways sometimes what Stephen Covey calls the win-win situation. Well most people think zero some it's often better to think win-win.

[@Torthrodhel]

@@MrNone-d5s a mistake in war will only kill you on the battlefield itself. Plenty of mistakes can be learned from in war, off the battlefield. I personally would consider the whole entire "break them down to build them up" training mentality to be a long-term mistake that ought to be learned from. The vast majority of soldiers don't end up firing a weapon in combat. For a necessary job that's a hell of a lot of wasted potential! There surely has to be a reason for that. My suspicion is, perhaps dehumanization isn't the best motivator. I could be entirely incorrect of course - there would be no way to know without trying - but I think it's a bit dim that other approaches aren't being explored at all. Moreso, I think that if you must resort to dehumanization, perhaps you shouldn't be asking "can we win?" but instead "should we win?" I reckon an army that knows it's righteous will go harder than one that only knows it's loyal. I think that's the element that some folks call "god's on our side"... or at least did so, back when anyone could be fooled into believing any government to be even the slightest bit just in their actions. These days that's a little impossible to swallow. You can't turn a thought without bumping into a remembered example to the contrary.

[@PrometheusEd]

Great Video. The subject is of interest. However, the video is a little long for this kind of material. It is hard to pay attention for long. Maybe you can try separating them into a few shorter videos. None the less, very good content. Keep up the good work!

[@HandleDisliker]

@@melvinsoh-xfactormethod I can see your point, yet this is the kind of stuff that gets one thinking. For many people (including myself), it feels like the flow of the video is being broken when they pause it to think.

[@audiotechplus1]

Prometheus Ed these are to be watched a quite few times, with a pen and paper. Take notes and to be studied.