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Sun Tzu's six rules for the identification of situations defined by a bottleneck.
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This article explains how to recognize the Limited Situation marks a transition point when we depend on a narrow set of resources. In a limited situations, we are constrained by our environment or surrounded by our opponents, making access to additional resources impossible. A limited situation occurs towards the end of a campaign where we are making the final transition to the desired position. This limited situation arises in an area where we cannot bring all our resources to bear because the transition point is a bottleneck.