The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

by Suthep Chaviwan

The above quotation which is a headline of my article belongings to General Sun Tzu, the Chinese military general, tactician, writer, and philosopher, who was born Sun Wu the grandmaster. 544 BC (traditional) and died 496 BC (traditional; aged 47–48)

I like his quotations: The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard. All warfare is based on deception.

Sun Tzu said that: To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy. Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. A leader leads by example, not by force.

He also said that "You have to believe in yourself. Treat your men as you would your beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley".

The other quotations:- All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

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If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

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The final quotation that I also would like to add here is: Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy are the noise before defeat.

Suthep Chaviwan/ Feb. 06, 22.

 The Naga people today and tomorrow

 Suthep Chaviwan/March 6, 2022 

About three million Naga tribal people, (more or less) inhabit the land-locked regions of Northeast India, mainly at the states of Nagaland, Manipur, and at the vast area of the Sagaing Region of Myanmar, but the Myanmar Government created a small place known as Naga Self-Administration Zone (Naga-SAZ) for them to live.

At the long borderlines of India-Myanmar which is called the Free Movement Regime (FMR) is also live by over 300,000 Nagas and other non-Naga tribal people. 

The Naga rebel groups such as the NSCN (IM) which have entered the ceasefire and engaged in political talk with India for the last 24 years have lost their way to reach their destination. 

The NSCN (IM) has the high hope that India will give them freedom and sovereignty but does not study the fact that none of the Indian authorities, (the Indian Government, the Indian Prime Minister, and the interlocutors) has the power to grant them such sovereignty. 

During the past 24 years, the Indian Government had assigned several interlocutors to talk with the NSCN (IM), making the NSCN members understand that the interlocutors have the powers, on behalf of the Indian Government, to give freedom and sovereignty for Nagas. (?)

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Now, it is time that the NSCN-IM to wake up from their long sleep and forget the 24 years nightmare. They need to launch out the new plans, new strategies, including to listen the suggestion, ideas, and the voice, of the Naga younger generations. 

It is also not wrong to renew their friendship with their former friends, the ISI, the Bangladesh DGFI, and the Chinese comrades and assign their cadres to work aboard or even hire someone working on their behalf. 

Although most of their Chinese friends are in advanced age, some are bed-ridden patients. The younger Chinese generations working at their national security unit such as the MSS, still have their official record- recording that Naga people and the NSCN-IM are their friends.

Suthep Chaviwan/March 6, 2022

 

Additional Info

 

NSCN- IM and other NSCN groups and several secessionist groups in India such as the ULFA may already know that Clause 3, Article 3 of the Indian Constitution stipulates that "No Indian State can secede from the Indian union".

Although the central government decides to divide, make changes to the border, etc., of the states but states cannot leave the Indian union. So Indian Union is an Indestructible Union of destructible states.

The content in it does not complicate the said Article for the NSCN leaders or even those who do not know legal terms can make their comprehension.

Because of this law, both India and NSCN IM will never reach their final agreement (?) as the core demands of the NSCM I-M group is for the creation of sovereignty Nagalim, the demand that will never accept by India unless India changes or amend the constitution for the "solution of Indo-Naga problems and give up to I-M! 

But such phenomena will never happen as long as the Sun rises in the East and set in the West. 

No doubt, the GOI leaders in the past and present and the collective leadership of the NSCN (I-M) know very well what they are talking about this during the time of over two decades. 

They talked about the subject that they know that there will be no final agreement. 

In Clause 4. Article 2 states that the parliament may, by law, admit new states into the Union of India or establish new states on terms and conditions it deems fit. For the egg. The addition of the State of Sikkim by the 35th (1974) and 36th (1975) constitutional amendments.

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>>In summary, the GOI in the past and the present have no right to give Nagaland or any territorial area in India for Nagas to create their sovereign Nagalim (for the separated country). 

GOI cannot give any terrorist groups in the country to create the sovereign country inside India unless present India's Constitution is amended to favor Nagas. 

As to the Act East policy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that also passes through the area of NAGA-SAZ, Naga people should support it as it is the gateway to ASEAN and also to Ruili-Muse which is the official gateway to China.

>>The Indo-Myanmar border pass in Naga-SAZ is an important international trading hub and "India's gateway to ASEAN", but both India and Myanmar still do not fully use it or develop it at the international level from Look East into Act East.

>>At present, they still carried the trade here out at the local level. And according to the report, they designated it every Friday as "Burma Day" when local villagers can cross to India, visit or trade at Nampong Market Place. 

Citizens from the Indian side may visit Pangsaung village every the 10th, 20, and 30th day of every month which is known as "India Days". It is the routine, nothing is more progress in that area. 

Naga leadership at all levels especially the NSCN-IM, must have a new plan, new strategies including going out to the outside world, seeking more friends, not only confining themselves at the jungle of Somra Tract, or Camp Hebron!

Suthep/March 6, 22

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