Kindred,
I know first hand how those Art of War types think, believe and act; always scheming and carrying out their quests of conquests, throwing their weight around demonstrating their power and control in unruly acts of violence and abuses.
Those Art of War types think people are nothing, but pawns to be manipulated; everyone and anyone is collateral damage except the tyrant.
King makers or queen makers all vying for power and control.
And none see themselves in the rat race of fools, playing at an imagined glory in an unwinnable race.
Any race devoid of humanity and salvation is an ultimate loss; standing upon the bones and blood of innocents, stained in crimes against humanity, a loser's race towards hell.
As soon as one acts out the pages of the Art of War, that person is in a war against the Lord and humanity.
What is not written in those pages is the Lord's Judgement.
What is the Lord's Judgement?
What is the Lord's command?
Are the liars immediately struck down by lightning?
No?
Well, you do not have to be struck down by lightning to be struck down by sins and become liars, cheats and Judases, corrupt and damned and completely incompatible with heaven and all that is holy.
What is not in their control, what is not in their power, is to know or decide the Lord's Judgement.
What is beyond is still beyond their reach, no matter how powerful.