On Campaigns

Commanding a campaign in a theater of war is very much a matter of resource management. Committing too many resources too early and thus squandering them may cripple the campaign later on. Yet it does not help to squander those same resources slightly later on in the campaign, and thus achieve the same result.

Through careful management of the resources, it may become possible to gather a climatic push towards the end, if one survives that long. Therefore, it is a careful balance to ensure that just enough resources are used at critical junctures, yet maintaining a sufficient reserve to hold off any future encounters.

Of course, hindsight is always 20/20, so one will invariably regret certain moves in retrospect. What is important is to learn from those moves, and to move swiftly. If one must retreat, one should do so in order to conserve resources. When one is facing a winning situation, one should push for victory as strongly as reasonably allowable.