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Originally Posted by kato13
I think Sun-Tzu's philosophy is to avoid battles not to avoid war. From my interpretation he considered war to be quite necessary to the state. If an advantage could be had by war, he would have certainly suggested taking it.
"It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on." - Sun Tzu
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Agree, he would have loved the cold war
. In fact, I should have used "not to fight it" instead of "not to start it".