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Sun Tzu's Five Importance Of War Planning

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Introduction
In Chapter 1, Sun Tzu has started his guidance from a brief introduction. He states it is the most importance significance of war planning ought to be "completely considered," that its result implies the distinction amongst survival and destroy of the country. Besides, he also discusses about the way of war planning. From this planning, the three aspects are including which are two sides’ situation, winning condition and the ability of leader. In order to analyze these three aspects, Sun Tzu had proposal the five fundamental factors, along with seven elements.

Therefore, Sun Tzu had elaborated the meaning by each of these five factors, which are moral influence, weather, terrain, commander and discipline. For the principle factor, political is inspire people to share the same visions, ideas and expectations with the leader. The weather refers the changes in climate conditions. Therefore, terrain is about situation, distant or immediate, difficult or easy, opportunities and risks and then the command is the capability and attitude of the leader to manage the country. Last, doctrine are refers to the organization and …show more content…

The reputation of the commander must maintenance in action, to show the qualities and ability of command as having "wisdom, sincerity, humanity, courage, and strictness" (“The Annotated Art”, n.d.). Similarity to command, the doctrine has to do with "organization, control, assignment of appropriate ranks of officers, regulation of supply routes, and the provision of principle items used by the army." Sun Tzu makes it clear that this rather organize planning offers a greater opportunity of success than having a large army. He concludes his explanation that, "Those who master them win; those who do not are

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