Military Specific Occupations

3 Occupation Groups · Career Skills · SOC 55-0000 · 13+ skills

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military-campaign-authorization

baojie/shiji-kb

Use when authorizing a military campaign or establishing battlefield discipline. Based on the Battle of Gan (甘之战), structures just-cause documentation, formal proclamation (誓), duty assignment, and post-battle accountability at ancestral shrines.

military-campaign-protocol

baojie/shiji-kb

Use when planning a righteous military campaign against a tyrannical ruler. Covers just-cause verification, alliance building, troop declaration, combat rules of engagement, and post-victory administration based on Tang and Wu Wang's campaigns.

conduct-state-sacrifices

baojie/shiji-kb

Use when performing state sacrificial rituals (畤) to establish religious legitimacy or mark significant occasions. Guides altar preparation, sacrificial animal selection (三牢), ritual conduct, and event documentation. Based on Qin's sacrificial traditions.

respond-to-military-defeat

baojie/shiji-kb

Use when recovering from a major military defeat or rebuilding forces after a loss. Based on Duke Mu's response to the Xiao defeat, covers personal accountability, commander restoration, public acknowledgment, and rebuilding strategy.

judge-long-distance-military-campaign

baojie/shiji-kb

Use when evaluating the feasibility of a long-distance surprise military attack. Assesses distance risks, intelligence reliability, supply line vulnerabilities, and contingency planning. Based on Qin's failed attack on Zheng as a cautionary example.

wei-liao-conquest-strategy

baojie/shiji-kb

Use when facing a coalition of rival states or planning to disrupt enemy alliances (合从). Allocates resources for bribing key officials (豪臣), sowing discord to prevent unified action, then executing military conquest. Proposed by Wei Liao to Qin Shi Huang.

qin-book-burning-decree

baojie/shiji-kb

Use when standardizing education or controlling historical narratives across a unified empire. Categorizes texts for destruction vs. exemption, establishes enforcement timelines and punishments, and redirects education through officials (以吏为师).

river-flooding-siege-tactic

baojie/shiji-kb

Use when besieging a fortified city resistant to conventional assault. Plans river diversion to compromise walls through hydraulic pressure. Based on Wang Ben's 225 BCE flooding of Daliang that forced Wei's surrender.

imperial-title-establishment

baojie/shiji-kb

Use when creating a new imperial title or establishing governance terminology for a unified empire. Guides council deliberation, historical precedent review, title composition (皇帝), imperial terminology (制/诏/朕), and succession numbering from 始皇帝 onward.

qin-standardization-system

baojie/shiji-kb

Use when implementing uniform standards across a newly unified empire. Covers weights and measures (衡石丈尺), writing system (书同文字), transportation (车同轨), Five Elements cosmology, and symbolic renaming of rivers and populace.

imperial-inspection-tour

baojie/shiji-kb

Use when planning an imperial inspection tour (巡游) to demonstrate authority and inspect territories. Covers route planning, Feng and Shan sacrifices at Mount Tai, stele erection, local scholar consultation, and governance issue resolution.

commandery-county-administration

baojie/shiji-kb

Use when replacing feudal states with centralized commandery-county (郡县) administration. Establishes 36 commanderies with three-tier governance (守/尉/监), merit-based appointments, and centralized treasury stipends per Li Si's rationale.