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Soldierly advice about the art of warfare contained within a book by the great general [[Callus Tacticus]], whose very name has become synonymous across the Disc with the tactics employed by literate soldiery.


==Nuggets of martial wisdom ==
 
*''If you want your men to become farmers, issue them spades''.
 
*''It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country. This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.''

*''To ensure against defeat, when out-numbered, out-weaponed and out-positioned: don't have a battle.''

*''When confronted with an impregnable fortress, well-garrisoned and well-stocked with provisions, endeavour to be the man on the inside.''

*''Power at a point!''  (echoes General Guderian's summation of the Blitzkrieg strategy: find the ''"schwerpunkt"'' of the enemy's line and hit him there with everything you have. Then just keep moving.)

*''Ab Hoc Possum Videre Domum Tuum'' (I Can See Your House From Up Here) - meant, in the opinion of [[71-hour Ahmed]], to be both a boast and a threat, but now just a line of ornamental masonry in what was Ankh-Morpork's Klatchian colony of Tacticum. 


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