POLICY OF CAMPAIGN
That relative advantage in Numbers expressed by the larger aggregate of Chess-pieces is materially manifested upon the Chess-board by additional geometric and sub-geometric symbols.
Excess or deficiency in Numbers determines the policy of Campaign. The policy of the inferior force is:
- 1. To preserve intact its Corps d’armee, and
- 2. To engage in battle only when victory can be assured by other advantages in Strategetic means, which nullify the adverse advantage in Numbers; and even then only when such victory is decisive of the Campaign.
Hence, the policy of Campaign of that army superior in Numbers, is:
Incessantly to proffer battles which:
- (a) Accepted, constantly reduces the inferior army and increases its disproportion in numbers, or,
- (b) Evaded, compels the inferior army to abandon important posts, for whose defence it cannot afford the resulting loss of troops; thus permitting to the numerically superior army a continually increasing advantage in Position.