Two Rules to Secure the Fruits of Victory

Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible. And when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit so long as your men have strength to follow; for an army routed, if hotly pursued, becomes panic-stricken, and can then be destroyed by half their number.

The other rule is, never fight against heavy odds if by any possible maneuvering you can hurl your own force on only a part, and that the weakest part, of your enemy and crush it. Such tactics will win every time, and a small army may thus destroy a large one in detail, and repeated victory will make it invincible.

Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, 1862, to one of his officers

The application, and thus the reason for the post, is not to discuss actual warfare, but to ponder on the application of these "rules" to the great campaigns we undertake in life: career, ministry, mission, charity, and such, because great endeavors always bring great opposition. Sampson