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Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.

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Without harmony in the State, no military expedition can be undertaken; without harmony in the army, no battle array can be formed.

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When one treats people with benevolence, justice and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders.

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Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field.

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In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.

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Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.

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Those who do not know the plans of competitors cannot prepare alliances. Those who do not know the lay of the land cannot maneuver their forces. Those who do not use local guides cannot take advantage of the ground.

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The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand. Thus do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat: how much more no calculation at all! It is by attention to this point that I can foresee who is likely to win or lose.

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Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling.

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The true objective of war is peace.

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Unless you enter the tiger's lair, you cannot get hold of the tiger's cub's.

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If a battle can not be won do not fight it.

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Of all rewards none [is] more liberal than those given to secret agents.

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All war is based on deception.

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The value of time, that is of being a little ahead of your opponent, often provides greater advantage than superior numbers or greater resources.

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If your enemy is superior, evade him

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When orders are consistently trustworthy and observed, the relationship of a commander with his troops is satisfactory.

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the leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril.

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Bestow rewards without regard to rule, issue orders without regard to previous arrangements; and you will be able to handle a whole army as though you had to do with but a single man.

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It is the rule in war, if ten times the enemy's strength, surround them; if five times, attack them; if double, be able to divide them; if equal, engage them; if fewer, defend against them; if weaker, be able to avoid them.

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