Think strategy.
The famous text of Sun Tzu’s Art of War was written more than 2,400 years ago. It has provided timeless wisdom to countless military, political, and business leaders for a millennium, and it offers us relevant insights today. Let’s start with this quote:
“In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy’s country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy it.
Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.”
If you can win a war without fighting, that’s clearly the best path forward. That said, common sense says achieving such supreme excellence is easier said than done.
What can we learn from this wisdom and how does it apply to today?
Follow the logic:
We are at war. Cultural war. Ideological war. Political war. Proxy war. Perhaps even civil war and/or a conventional war? More on this in a moment.
The enemy has a strategy. To ascertain this strategy would be highly advantageous. To understand the enemy is half the battle.
We need to have a strategy. Acknowledging that we are under attack is only the first step. Protesting the attacks is pointless. We need to play offense.
The fact that we are at war is often difficult to accept. Many people want to object and try to soften the language, “Well, it’s not really like we’re at War war…” —but the truth remains, we are at war, and it would be utterly foolish to deny this reality. To pretend that our country, our culture, our families, our beliefs, and even our personal well-being are not under direct and coordinated attack would be a fatal mistake.
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