自分より強い相手にぶつかって、初めて自分の弱さを知る

A person's worth is determined by how they conduct themselves in defeat.

The ancients said: after victory, tighten the cords of your helmet.

-- The admiral who destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima

Without first establishing internal governance, there can be no external campaigns.

-- The ruthlessly effective architect of modern Japan who built the Meiji state's institutions while his more charismatic peers took the glory

兵無常勢、水無常形。能因敵変化而取勝者、謂之神。

-- A 5th-century BCE Chinese military theorist whose

The best form of welfare for the troops is first-rate training.

-- The 'Desert Fox' whose North African campaigns made him the most respected German general of World War II among both allies and enemies

Mountains, rivers, trees — all turned desolate. For ten miles, the wind carries the stench of a fresh battlefield.

-- The Japanese general whose siege of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War became synonymous with both the terrible cost of modern warfare and the samurai ideal of duty unto death

What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle.

-- The undefeated Russian generalissimus whose three