The rifle squad of the Marine Corps is the result of many years of development and combat experience...
The purpose of offensive combat is to destroy the enemy and his will to fight. Offensive action is the only means by which a decision is gained in combat. It requires superiority over the enemy, but superiority in numbers or fire alone is not necessarily the deciding factor. In the final analysis, superiority is achieved by a combination of higher morale, greater aggressiveness, a higher quality of leadership, better training and better equipment.
Guidebook for Marines
Squad Tactics, pg 167
Eleventh Edition, July 1, 1967
That works.
Sounds like a pretty good summary of Sun Tzu and a few others to me. You really think that everything in the marine guidebook was first time those ideas appeared in print? that guidebook and those used by the other armed services are but the distillation of 2,000 + years of military thought and practical application.
I geuss I'll toss out my library now that I know every worth knowing is in the Marine Guide Book. ;-]