Re: Weber/White Books (contains SPOILERS)

>>	Has anyone out there read David Weber and Steve White's
>> Insurrection and Crusade? More to the point, what are some of your
>> thoughts on the Theban's samurai sleds and x-ray lasers?
>>
>
>I just finished "On Death Ground", I haven't read Insurrection and
Crusade
>
>SPOLIERS SPOILERS SPOLIERS SPOILERS
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[spoilers deleted]
>
[...]
>The title is based on a quote form the "Art O War" AOW by Sun Tzu, I
couldn't 
>actually find anything remotely like it in my copy of the AOW?

In my copy, a 'Shambhala Pocket Classic', translated by Thomas Cleary,
there is a chapter called 'Nine Grounds'.

The closest that he comes in my version of the book is as follows:

"According to the rule for military operations, there are nine kinds of
ground. Where local interests fight among themselves on their own
territory,
this is called a ground of dissolution.

"When you enter another's land, but not deeply, this is called light
ground."

[and so on and so forth until...]

"When you will survive if you fight quickly and perish if you do not,
this
is called dying ground."

"So let there be no battle on a ground of dissolution, let there be no
stopping on light ground, ... on surrounded ground make plans, and on
dying ground fight."

For what it's worth.

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