The Importance of Foreknowledge

Sun Tzu: What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer is foreknowledge. To remain in ignorance of the enemy's conditions simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and emoluments is the height of inhumanity, says Sun Tzu. Spies cannot be usedfully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity," he adds.