Sun Tzu's saying on New Year's Day

Amy Joyce, in her article in today's Washington Post (see my musing immediately preceding), also mentions that each year begins with a clean calendar; good advice, well said. It so happens that, during the holidays, my two grandchildren (Maxwell, 10; Veronika, 5) gave me "A Year 2006 Daily Boxed Calendar: The Art of War - Ancient Military Strategy for Modern Business" as one of many gifts I received; for each day, the calendar provides a saying from Sun Tzu. For today, it says: "Complete means having both ability and intelligence. When a country has generals that are thoroughly able and intelligent, then that country is safe and strong. This means that generals have to be completely capable and completely knowledgeable in all operations." The saying is said to be from Chapter 3 of The Art of War, but the calendar's publisher makes no mention of who the translator is -- and I cannot relate the "translation" back to the original. The closest I can find is the following (my own rendition, from my bilingual translation published as The Art of Leadership by Sun Tzu, in 2000): " The commander assists the state. Proper assistance strengthens the state; inadequate assistance weakens it." (p 43)
Posted at 2:22 pm, Sunday, January 1, 2006