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In the field manuals the common lesson is to pursue an advantage to the end, to follow up on the victory, never to stop with an incomplete victory, but the field manuals are written with the care and leisure which might accompany kaissa. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter 9, Sentence #47)

At the height of the trail lay the holding with its wealth of gold, silver, silk, sake, vessels, jewels, screens, hangings, perfumes, weapons, robes, instruments, ointments, oils, and such, the treasure and loot of generations amassed by the house of Temmu. Who can discipline an army if it is the army itself which abandons discipline? In warfare, the salvation of the defeated is often contingent on the victors pausing to gather in the stores of the routed force, which delay commonly purchases the time necessary for an expeditious withdrawal. In theory one presses on against a fleeing enemy, denying him rest, precluding a regrouping and stand. In the field manuals the common lesson is to pursue an advantage to the end, to follow up on the victory, never to stop with an incomplete victory, but the field manuals are written with the care and leisure which might accompany kaissa. They are composed in tents by lamplight, after a day's march or skirmishing, even in winter quarters, or even in exile, or retirement, as is thought to have been the case with the Field Diaries commonly attributed to Carl Commenius of Argentum. It is not difficult, in the quiet of the night, or the quiet of the study, to analyze with shrewdness, and compose with deliberation. But, unfortunately, those in the ranks are seldom familiar with the manuals, and would not care for them if they were, and many cannot read. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter 9)