X-mas 16 days away

Today we see the Garden Gnome Guide and the piglet Xavier Balatones travelling by kayak in the remote Arctic Ocean. There was a press-release from the Gnome Combat Group Press Centre (GCGPC) and it did not have much of information attached. Apparently the Garden Gnome Guide has liberated the little piglet somewhere very far up north. The information does not tell us anything why a piglet with a clearly Spanish name was rescued that far away from the Spanish homelands.

Instead the Garden Gnome Guide made the following statement:

"- If the target of the operation is located within 100 kilometers, it just takes one day to mobilize the combat force. If the target of the operation is located within 1.000 kilometers, it takes a month to mobilize the combat force. If the target of the operation is within the four seas, it takes a year to mobilize the combat force. These were the words of Wei Liaozi, and they are still valid - the further away the operation is going to take place, the more of planning, tactical training and finetuning of logistics is needed to make it successful."

Note: Wei Liaozi lived, according to the Chinese historian Sima Qian, during the third century BC. He was employed as strategist at the court of Zheng Ying of Qin, who later became Chinas first emperor.