Painterly striped feather resting diagonally on a flat grey stone under soft light.

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The Art of War

Sun Tzu

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

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Our interpretation.

The falcon's well-timed swoop makes decision and effective action part of the same image. Its success depends on the moment of the strike. The comparison presents timing as central to decisive force, using a predator's attack to give that abstract quality a vivid shape.

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