A Wider Summary of General Military Principles

Contemporary lists of military principles do not account for ethnoracial and other supposed offensive factors, as if rulers can make unwanted facts go away by ignoring them. Establishments deem it acceptable to kill individuals in unjust wars, but mention any unwanted truths to them and you will be ostracized or worse.

Below I list both well-known and seldom known military factors or principles. So for free, I'm summarizing Sun Tzu and dozens of other military works, including some of my principles, more concisely than others have. What a bargain!

Well-known factors or principles, though often adhered to in lip service:

1. Logistics.
2. Training.
3. Range, especially of weapons.
4. Accuracy, especially of weapons.
5. Science and technology.
6. Reconnaissance range, numbers, and accuracy.
7. Concentration and dispersion to match situations. Forces should not be so close together that they get destroyed easily but not so far apart that they get defeated piecemeal or cannot provide mutual support.
8. Cover (armor, bunkers).
9. Readiness, including early warning preparations.
10. Destructiveness (mass or weapon lethality).
11. Military efficiency, also known as economy of force. Don't spend trillions to destroy enemy forces worth millions. Exhaust enemies without exhausting yourself.
12. Economic efficiency, productivity, and GDP.
13. Morale and efficient organization.
14. Flexibility and resilience.
15. Terrain and Weather. Take unoccupied high ground or other advantageous ground. Travel the less unexpected way. Use fog and other weather to advantage.
16. Seize, retain, and exploit the initiative when advantageous. Deny assets to unethical forces, especially assets an enemy cannot afford to lose. Be unpredictable.
17. Have one overall commander, who is easily replaced if someone else is more competent.
18. Hire the more competent. Delegate to them. Hold them accountable. Fire the less competent.
19. Speed and maneuver, including mobile reserves.
20. Delay until situations are most beneficial, but do not delay merely for laziness or cowardice.
21. Hide or strengthen weaknesses, including flanks.
22. Use extreme clarity in communication, keeping forces from blundering because of confusing orders or suggestions.
23. Protect own communications from interception and code breaking.
24. Hold or seize valuables: crops, ports, ships, bridges, aircraft, airfields, scientists, engineers, crossroads, factories, technologies, energy plants, media centers, storage centers, precious elements, marshaling yards, administrative centers. If it can't be held or seized, destroy it or otherwise deny it to enemies.
25. Negotiating prowess.
26. Medical care.
27. Ambush or cut off enemy movements without falling into ambushes and other traps yourself.
28. Deception, including smoke, decoys, surprise, sniping, minefields, camouflage, espionage, infiltration, false flags, night actions, code breaking, feigned movements, other demonstrations, bait-and-switch, recon by fire, attacking the rear, tying down their forces (self-imprisonment), tricking them into attacking where you want, tricking them into moving where you want. Etc.
29. Probe for weaknesses, especially on flanks or social weaknesses.
30. Defeat piecemeal with concentrated power.
31. Self-test, including self-reconnaissance.
32. Own the sea, air, and night.

Seldom known factors or principles:

1. Avoid salience to current enemies and potential enemies. Contemporary interventionists talk loudly and carry rotten sticks. Keep unethical peoples far away. Individuals breeding with unethical outgroups must be permanently ostracized. Avoid letting ethnoracial outgroups bribe your leaders in any way, including "no strings" gifts. The recipients of such bribes must be executed or otherwise severely punished.
2. Maximize beneficial alliances and spurn harmful alliances. There were no good ethical reasons for NATO to expand to Russian border states.
3. Stealthily sow divisions among aggressive enemies when forced into conflict, encourage them to fight each other rather than yourself or your allies. Do not allow greedy, treasonous elites to sow divisions among ethical peoples. Ingroups engaging in divide-and-screw practices must be severely punished, both to stop the practices and as a deterrent. Outgroups exercising power over you by divide-and-screw practices must face similar punishments.
4. Avoid wasting your own lives and resources to help unethical peoples. If they won't make massive sacrifices to help themselves and their own people, neither should we. Avoid self destructive conflicts with guerrillas in foreign lands.
5. Avoid recklessly reinforcing defeat. Ignore sunk costs. What was spent in the past is irrelevant to what we should spend now.
6. Be careful with bluffs. They often backfire when enemies call them.
7. Avoid hiring mercenaries. If mercenaries seem a beneficial solution, you probably are doing multitudes or other acts wrong.
8. Ethics matters most, including having clear goals and cost-benefit reasoning, especially maximizing the ratio of harms to unjust enemies to harms done to oneself. Self-examination and self-knowledge must be ruthless. Military means and ends must be ethical means and ends. Contemporary forces talk about ethics but the talk is glib and poorly reasoned, often consisting of empty slogans and buzzwords.
9. Eugenics is a must and ethnoracial homogeneity a worthy goal. Civilizations seldom progress if the demographics don't improve.
10. Some ordinary whites regard agreements as binding. Most others regard agreements as disposable when opportune. 
11. Avoid intervening on behalf of lesser evils.
12. Encourage risk neutrality, that is, avoid both overreacting and under reacting.
13. Avoid fights when ethical people lack the will to fight.
14. Avoid fights to engage in pseudo-ethical grandstanding. Some politicians are willing to fight wars merely to prove they have the moral high ground in some minor way. Others demonize opponents to distract from their own evils.
15. Avoid viewing war as a game or as an entertaining escape from boredom. Have no interest in watching the world burn. If we are not self-possessed, others will crush our necks with their boots. We must find ethical escapes from boredom and depression.
16. Avoid war or require all out sacrifices by all non-disabled adults and teens.
17. Know commitment levels of allies. Have accurate recognition of allies, enemies, and noncombatants.
18. Seek peace but not merely to allow probable enemies to buy time to defeat you in the future.
19. Tests must be thorough in realistic conditions, no small sample testing.
20. Prevent personality cultism from arising around unethical or incompetent leaders.
21. Individuals must be treated justly.
22. Commit to frequent improvements.
23. Avoid military jargon, especially acronyms. They are alienating. Use language to inspire and provide evidence, including the best counter evidence.
24. Reason. Avoid fanaticism. Those who dismiss ideas merely because the ideas offend them have a fanaticism problem.
25. Ability and willingness to live off the land is a virtue.
26. Ethical warriors must have a no surrender mentality.
27. Support self-determination. Understand splintering, evolutionary egoism, psychological egoism, and misplaced altruism. 
28. Assume politicians, billionaires, and mass media are almost always slanted away from the whole truth.
29. Support philosophical diversity among ethical patriots, but keep aggressors, including infiltrators, from gaining control of institutions used for persuasion.
30. Assume enemies are more clever than they appear. Avoid overconfidence. Think of moves by enemies and likely counter moves to your moves. If you have advantages in numbers, technologies, and economic productivity, your enemies are probably working to gain other advantages. Never be smug.
31. Avoid ruminations, self-pity, wishful thinking, futility beliefs, and permanent ironic detachment.
32. Do right acts despite fear, ennui, anxiety, and other helpful or harmful emotions.
33. Remember that attacks often reveal you to others and expose you to counterattacks, including rhetorical attacks.
34. Opportunity costs of unjust wars are often greater than the direct costs.
35. Better alternatives probably exist than the ones being promoted.
36. If a potential adversary engages in mercantilism, avoid trade with them beforehand. Mercantilism is a sign of egoism, Machiavellianism, and future aggression.
37. Persuasion or assassination are usually better than war.

The details, of how and where to apply these tactics and strategies, fill thousands of books. Context matters. A super expert on World War II could tell you what a World War II commander should have done, even for some battles they never heard of because they understand the context of the war. If you take the same expert and transport them in a time machine to the eleventh century, they might struggle. They would know principles such as taking the high ground but know little about context. They wouldn't know the motivations of those around them. They wouldn't know who is trustworthy. They might not know the comparative strengths and weaknesses of weapons on various sides. They would not know how various sides had performed in previous battles. Etc.

Many of the strategies listed above do not apply to nuclear or biological warfare. But they do apply to the aftermath of nuclear or biological warfare. At some point during even the most gung ho nuclear war, the side that emerges most able to function, if any, would probably realize that further nuclear attacks would do more to poison their own land with radiation than harm their perceived enemies. In other words, they would not want winds to carry massive amounts of radiation back to their own lands. It is unlikely that even the most horrific nuclear war would kill every person on the planet. In the aftermath of nuclear wars, survivors would find themselves competing or cooperating with other survivors depending on their characters and ethnoracial traits, though some would attempt to be complete hermits. But we can't build or rebuild civilizations with hermits. The infrastructure for building more nuclear weapons would also likely be gone. Many would find themselves in local turf and resource conflicts where conventional military tactics and strategies would reemerge since hungry, desperate individuals would not play the asinine game of counterinsurgency warfare. Unethical insurgents and the "civilians" who aid them would get scorched earth treatment, not kid gloves treatment. The contemporary lobbies for long distance interventionism and counterinsurgency war profiteering would be gone. Groups of survivors clinging to contemporary norms will find themselves exploited and wiped out.

It should be obvious by now that almost every Western military strategist for over half a century has stunk up the place. Yet they keep getting paid and socially promoted.