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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: these?
Nic. Certainly; but you omit to tell us what service organisation and
the art of management will render when it comes to actual fighting.
Soc. Why, it is just then, I presume, it will be of most service, for
the good economist knows that nothing is so advantageous or so
lucrative as victory in battle, or to put it negatively, nothing so
disastrous and expensive as defeat. He will enthusiastically seek out
and provide everything conducive to victory, he will painstakingly
discover and guard against all that tends to defeat, and when
satisifed that all is ready and ripe for victory he will deliver
battle energetically, and what is equally important, until the hour of
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