{"id":68432,"date":"2021-12-19T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T06:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=68432"},"modified":"2021-12-18T10:00:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T15:00:34","slug":"qotd-sun-tzus-art-of-war-reworked-for-the-21st-century-by-general-mark-milley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/12\/19\/qotd-sun-tzus-art-of-war-reworked-for-the-21st-century-by-general-mark-milley\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Sun Tzu&#8217;s <em>Art of War<\/em> reworked for the 21st Century by General Mark Milley"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>&#8230; here at <em>The Babylon Bee<\/em>, we&#8217;re legit journalists, so we&#8217;ve got the exclusive scoop. Here are some excerpts from the upcoming revision of <em>The Art of War<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>&#8220;If you think you might attack an enemy, pick up the phone and give &#8217;em a heads up. It&#8217;s only fair.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>&#8220;You have to be careful not to surprise your enemy. They really don&#8217;t like it.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>&#8220;Treason is not treason if it is the lesser of two treasons.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>&#8220;Know thy pronouns, and know thy enemy&#8217;s pronouns.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>&#8220;The supreme art of war is to surrender to your enemy without fighting.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>&#8220;All war is white rage.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>&#8220;If you surrender, you can never lose.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>&#8220;If thy commanding officer sends mean tweets, thou need not follow orders or the chain of command.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>&#8220;The enemy of my friend is my friend.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>&#8220;Keep your friends close and your enemies on speed dial.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>&#8220;You can not betray the one to which you were never loyal.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>&#8220;Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for China.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>&#8220;When retreating, leave most of thy armaments behind so you know what you&#8217;ll be up against next time.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>&#8220;Chinese bros before American hoes.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>&#8220;He who turns on bad orange man gets big book deal.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/general-milley-is-releasing-a-revised-version-of-the-art-of-war----and-weve-got-exclusive-excerpts\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;General Milley Is Releasing A Revised Version Of <em>The Art Of War<\/em> &mdash; And We&#8217;ve Got Exclusive Excerpts&#8221;, <em>BabylonBee<\/em><\/a>, 2021-09-17.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; here at The Babylon Bee, we&#8217;re legit journalists, so we&#8217;ve got the exclusive scoop. Here are some excerpts from the upcoming revision of The Art of War: &#8220;If you think you might attack an enemy, pick up the phone and give &#8217;em a heads up. It&#8217;s only fair.&#8221; &#8220;You have to be careful not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,22,57,5,41,13],"tags":[463],"class_list":["post-68432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-china","category-humour","category-military","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-parody"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-hNK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68432"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70668,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68432\/revisions\/70668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}