"On the battlefield of the future, everyone is just a mechanical link, even if he is a commander. Below the division level, that is, tactical troops, which carry out tactical tasks, will not have much impact in most cases. Therefore, if you are only a regiment commander, then you can only regard yourself as a regiment, and you cannot regard yourself as a division or even an army. And the so-called strategy, when used in strategy, is naturally a good thing, because strategy needs strategy to formulate. ”

"However, if you are only an officer in charge of tactical operations, all you have to do is to carry out the orders of your superiors and carry out the tasks assigned to you by your superiors. And you shouldn't be responsible for the overall strategic picture, that's not your responsibility. If you are a junior officer and think all day long about how you will be able to kill the enemy and how you will be able to expand your territory after you become a senior officer, it will be harmful. If you are not in this position at all, and you are thinking about the things that this position has to undertake, then you will definitely not succeed in this. Therefore, as a junior officer, you should think about how to use the troops under your own command to destroy the enemy. As for strategic deterrence, strategic strategy, that's not what you should think. Strategy is something that only senior officers need to be responsible for, and you junior officers only need to be responsible for operations and the execution of actual combat missions. Therefore, it is useless for you to learn the strategy of Sun Tzu's Art of War. If you learn too much strategy, you will misplace yourself in the war. ”

"Therefore, I think that officers below the division level should look at my theory of war more and less at Sun Tzu's Art of War. And officers at and above the division level should look more at Sun Tzu's Art of War and less at my theory of war, which is my Jianyì! ”

Jing Wen finally came to the conclusion that high-ranking officers are responsible for formulating strategies through strategy, while ordinary middle- and low-level officers should be responsible for the implementation of strategic tasks, so they should look more at the theory of war. If you use the evaluation of the afterlife. The theory of war is mainly a strategy of victory, that is, a strategy of winning by fighting. And Sun Tzu's Art of War is a total victory, that is, finding a way to achieve the greatest victory. This represents a decision, an execution, and it happens to be two sides of the same coin. Therefore, Jingwen also came to a conclusion, that is, middle and low-level officers should think about how to defeat their enemies, so they should look more at the theory of war. Instead, senior officers should think more about how to make decisions and how to reduce losses and maximize their benefits. And if it is a junior officer who ponders the affairs of a senior officer, it is a mistake to position one's own duties. That's not a good thing for your army.

And if senior officers are still indulging in the victory strategy of the war theory, it will inevitably cause the strategic pattern to be too narrow and unsuitable for higher-end posts. This is the difference in their own positioning in the war, so it creates different needs. If we look at the pattern, Sun Tzu's Art of War is indeed greater than the theory of war. However, there is no absolutely excellent art of war in this world, only suitable for oneself. In the end, it depends on where you stand, not on a generalized basis.

"Sacrificial wine, since you said that Sun Tzu's Art of War is strategy. And your theory of war is mainly suitable for the execution of battles. And only superiors order subordinates, so your theory of war is not as good as Sun Tzu's Art of War. Li Yesi immediately said very seriously, because he wanted to prove that the theory of war was inferior to Sun Tzu's Art of War from the traditional theory of subordination.

"Are you thinking that decision-making is more important than execution? But I think of decision-making and execution. It's parallel, and there's no one who is higher or who is lower. If you don't have a strong army to execute the strategy, you can't execute the strategy. And if an army can execute all the strategies, then this is not a simple matter. And if it is according to your meaning. Does this army only need to have decisions, and no one needs to be responsible for execution? And the sage of Confucius also said back then, learning without thinking is reckless. If you don't learn, you will die. This sentence also illustrates the relationship between decision-making and execution, think about it seriously! Jingwen said.

When the students heard Confucius's words, they were all surprised, and they were not able to guide the military even if Confucius did not go. And everyone understands that Confucius's words are the so-called "thinking" is decision-making thinking, and "learning" is execution. If you are only responsible for carrying out the orders of your superiors and do not think about it yourself, it will not help you in the future. But if you're just thinking and don't have the ability to do it, that's harmful.

Therefore, Confucius's sentence also very well pointed out that the relationship between decision-making and execution is actually a parallel relationship, not a question of who is higher and who is lower. This is like using a brain, a hands, a kind of Cheng dù no one can say that they are higher than others. This relationship between thinking and execution is even present in many other industries. In later generations, there were not only engineers in charge of design, but also technicians who were responsible for the actual production of products. All this clearly shows that decision-making and implementation are two equal lines, and there is no such thing as a higher or lower one.

Jingwen wants to tell the students, in fact, the core is that if you are the person in charge of decision-making, then you should watch more of Sun Tzu's Art of War, because the strategic thinking in it can be of great help. And the reason why those who say that Sun Tzu's art of war is good is actually that they are all emperors and generals, and they are all responsible for decision-making. However, those who are responsible for the execution of combat missions are not as high as the former, so their thoughts and thoughts may not be recorded in the history books. So, this creates the illusion that the decision is higher than the execution.

In fact, Jingwen also positioned the theory of war as the art of war that middle and low-level officers should learn more, which will be of great help to improve the execution of the army. In this way, it will also be of great help to the implementation of the strategy of senior officers. Jingwen is tantamount to creating a military book suitable for the middle and low-level officers of the Tang Dynasty, instead of letting them look at the art of war that far exceeds their identity, so for them, it is "thinking but not learning". Only what suits you is the best. The theory of war is the art of war tailored to those middle and low-level officers, and Jingwen believes that the main readers of his future theory of war, that is, middle- and low-level officers, because their duty is to implement strategy, and the theory of war is very helpful to improve their execution ability. (To be continued......)