Never underestimate the value of patient recon. Not only can you more productively pick and choose your targets, but an inferior force can overwhelm a superior one if the recon is done properly.

I don't have to eat for three days, if in so doing I don't end up dead from trying to. Observation is a primary survival skill.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)