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In [[Real Life]], there's no easy answer. In fictionland, however, you can just ask the Big Book Of War.
A specific type of [[Fictional Document]] (and occasionally [[Encyclopedia Exposita]]), the
Other organized groups, from [[
It can be [[Played for Laughs]] if a character tries to appear knowledgeable by quoting a rule, only to be corrected by someone else that he picked a completely wrong section of said document.
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* ''[[Icewind Dale]] 2'' includes an item, the book ''How to Be an Adventurer'', with such helpful chapters as "101 Uses for a 10' Pole", "Getting the Most out of Your Party's Thief", and "Face It, You're Actually Neutral Evil". Reading it grants a character 10,000 [[Experience Points]] and consumes the book.
* ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'''s [[Department of Redundancy Department|Assassins have their own Creed]]. ([[Captain Obvious|Well, duh...]])
* ''[[Star Wars]] [[Republic Commando]]''
* In ''[[A Tale of Two Kingdoms]]'', the Way of the Warrior by [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Moon Tzu]]. It explains how honorable it is to cast sand at the enemy's eyes during a swordfight.
== Webcomics ==
* ''The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates''--[[Retcon|er, that is,]] ''The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries''
** 1. [[Rape, Pillage and Burn|Pillage]], ''[[In That Order|THEN]]'' [[Rape, Pillage and Burn|burn]]. ([http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20030308.html 1], [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20040404.html 2], [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20040722.html 3])
** 2. [[Don't Ask, Just Run|A Sergeant in motion outranks a Lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.]] ([http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20090731.html 1])
** 3. [[Oh Crap|An ordnance technician]] [[Don't Ask, Just Run|at a dead run outranks
** 4. [[Gunship Rescue|Close air support covereth a multitude of sins.]] ([http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20080415.html 1])
** 5. [[Friend or Foe|Close air support and friendly fire should be easier to tell apart.]] ([http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20100421.html 1])
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== Real Life ==
* [[Warrior Poet|Sun Tzu's]] ''[[The Art of War]]'', the [[Older Than Feudalism|classic Chinese text]] and possible [[Trope Maker]] in the public consciousness, beloved by military strategists and pretended to be read by [[Nietzsche Wannabe
* [[Four-Star Badass|Carl von Clausewitz]]'s ''On War'' is the West's premier work on military theory. Clausewitz notably argues for the inherent superiority of defense over offense and stresses the moral and political aspects of war. Even though the work is [[Author Existence Failure|unfinished]], it was highly influential at the time of the First World War and remains relevant today. The book coined the concept of the "fog of war" and memorably defined war as "the continuation of politics by other means."
* Machiavelli's ''[[The Prince]]'', which covers military strategy as it pertains to ruling monarchs, and his [[Discourses on Livy]], which devotes the second of its three sections chiefly to conducting war as a republic. Part of Machiavelli's intention is to convince his readers that the Italian city-states should not be reliant on mercenaries, and should instead build up militias. His tactics were gradually amended over the years and became the basis for linear tactics.
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