It is not often that I write about military philosophy or even specific cases in history; embarking on the road of blogging has never included an actual analysis of both a historical battle situation as well as hypothetical scenarios. Yet this is indeed what I am about to do in this post as I cover a battle in China’s long history of warfare as well as take a look at how one of the scenarios in, of all things, a game, has sparked the idea for this post. In fact, the idea had been sitting around a very long while, but never been brought to fruition simply because…well, you will find out later on in the post.

For now, if you were here for the usual things, you can just skip this post and move on. For those who are interested, I am obviously not even learned at all in the subject of the art of war as 0ne is, but I have been interested in it ever since I was young. Of course, all of this could be taken with a pinch of salt from your point-of-view, which is up to you, the reader, to decide; I am obviously not as learned as 0ne in the subject. I do ask though, if you are going to comment, make sure you know what you are saying first, because I would like anyone who comments to actually understand quite a bit about the subject and not make up stuff that you shoot out through your nose. I have taken quite a bit of effort to run through all of this and I never like taking war as a subject of humor to be taken lightly. This is an early warning to those who do in the comments – I will delete it if I take it as such.

In less than a week, four people I know will enter NS, two each on two different days. You might even know them too – Windbell and TRM are heading in on the 13th (this Saturday), and Sabar and Weijie are going in on the 15th (Monday). Windbell will be entering in the morning and TRM in the afternoon, while Sabar and Weijie are going in at the same time. The odds of them being in the same company are great. Read on however, to find out what I really have to say.