Only by recognizing where your opponent bases their combat effective manuevers and realizing the ways in which they shape their movement to maximize their strengths can one truly know their enemy... and by knowing his enemy, a military leader is able to employ tactics which avoid areas where the enemy is strong and instead strikes at the enemy's weakness. By failing to respect his enemies (on some level at least), a leader fails to recognize the value of the enemy's tactics and therefore knows nothing about the enemy's strengths. Without that knowledge, he can't know anything real about the probable disposition of enemy troops, their movements in the field, and the points where it would be unwise to assault them. Every action, then, requires more effort and more sacrifice from his own side and plays into the well manuevered plans of the enemy. Such a situation can be overcome, but only at the cost of more resources than would otherwise be
Only by recognizing where your opponent bases their combat effective manuevers and realizing the ways in which they shape their movement to maximize their strengths can one truly know their enemy... and by knowing his enemy, a military leader is able to employ tactics which avoid areas where the enemy is strong and instead strikes at the enemy's weakness. By failing to respect his enemies (on some level at least), a leader fails to recognize the value of the enemy's tactics and therefore knows nothing about the enemy's strengths. Without that knowledge, he can't know anything real about the probable disposition of enemy troops, their movements in the field, and the points where it would be unwise to assault them. Every action, then, requires more effort and more sacrifice from his own side and plays into the well manuevered plans of the enemy. Such a situation can be overcome, but only at the cost of more resources than would otherwise be