Chen Fei was completely clueless about strategic planning, having neither experience nor exposure; he was a complete outsider.
However, he had his own professional expertise, habitually analyzing problems from an economic perspective, which, to some extent, turned out to be a serendipitous approach.
War serves politics, and politics serves economics; fighting is always about the economy, money, and costs.
No matter the form of struggle, since ancient times, it has always been about causing harm to the enemy while bearing one's own costs, which never changes.
Chen Fei's counterstrategy against the "Sagali" civilization always revolved around economic cost, because neither he nor the sovereignties of Blue Star could afford otherwise.
