Key Arguments

• Troops require emotional arousal to kill effectively
• Material incentives create advantage from victories
• First captors of enemy chariots should be rewarded
• Captured chariots should be reflagged and integrated with one’s own
• Humane treatment and retention of captured soldiers strengthens the army
• He defines this approach as using conquered foes to increase one’s power

Source Quotes

16. Now in order to kill the enemy, our men must be roused to anger; that there may be advantage from defeating the enemy, they must have their rewards. 17.

17. Therefore in chariot fighting, when ten or more chariots have been taken, those should be rewarded who took the first. Our own flags should be substituted for those of the enemy, and the chariots mingled and used in conjunction with ours.

Therefore in chariot fighting, when ten or more chariots have been taken, those should be rewarded who took the first. Our own flags should be substituted for those of the enemy, and the chariots mingled and used in conjunction with ours. The captured soldiers should be kindly treated and kept.

Our own flags should be substituted for those of the enemy, and the chariots mingled and used in conjunction with ours. The captured soldiers should be kindly treated and kept. 18.

18. This is called, using the conquered foe to augment one’s own strength. 19.

Key Concepts

• our men must be roused to anger; that there may be advantage from defeating the enemy, they must have their rewards.
• those should be rewarded who took the first.
• Our own flags should be substituted for those of the enemy, and the chariots mingled and used in conjunction with ours.
• The captured soldiers should be kindly treated and kept.
• using the conquered foe to augment one’s own strength.

Context

ii. Waging War (lines 125–175); morale, incentives, and exploitation of captured assets and personnel