ABSTRACT
Whenever engaging an enemy in combat, if the officers and troops would rather advance unto death than retreat and live, it is always because the commander's solicitude and beneficence have brought it about. When the Three Armies know that their superiors love them as sincerely as their sons, they will love their commanders as fervently as their fathers and penetrate deadly terrain without begrudging their deaths in order to repay their commander's 50virtue. A tactical principle from the Art of War states: "When one regards the people as beloved children, they will be willing to die with you."
