The New Sun Tzu

The new Sun Tzu in 200 words for today's D.C. battlefield:

When the enemy governs by illusion, truth is the siege engine.
In D.C. power rests on compromise through mutual vulnerability. Alliances are brittle — they exist until exposure is more dangerous than loyalty.

The strong appear busy; the weak appear essential.
Bureaucracies cultivate the illusion of indispensability, while disguising real decisions behind layers of procedural fog.

The battlefield is perception, not policy.
The public is both the army and the prize; control of the narrative is the high ground. But repeated campaigns have eroded the terrain — audiences are fractured and fatigued.

Strike not where they are fortified, but where they are comfortable.
Surprise comes not from speed, but from violating assumptions: a truth revealed where no one was looking, a coalition formed between unlikely allies.

Endurance is the deciding weapon.
Most actors are sprinters running a marathon. He who moves steadily, without self-destruction, will be standing when all others are exhausted.

Do you see RussiaGate, Trump or Jasmine Crockett in any of these?