Master Sun: “Assess the advantages in taking advice, then structure your forces accordingly, to supplement extraordinary tactics. Forces are to be structured strategically, based on what is advantageous.”

Cao Cao: “Structure depends on strategy: strategy is determined according to events.”

Adaptation: Do not form your assessments in a vacuum. While it is important to keep your own counsel and reserve decision making to the appropriate parties in the chain of command, it is nonetheless imperative to avoid groupthink by placing your assessments before disinterested subject matter experts who can give you an objective evaluation of your assessments.
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