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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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Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general is responsible. These are: (1) Flight; (2) insubordination; (3) collapse; (4) ruin; (5) disorganisation; (6) rout.

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One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant.

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Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.

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Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.

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Ground which can be freely traversed by both sides is called accessible.

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To capture an enemies army is better than to destroy it.

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The true objective of war is peace.

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To persuade your enemy to (retreat) before the fight is to defeat them even before the battle begins. An enemy made ally is no longer an enemy.

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Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle .... They conquer by strategy.

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Rapidity is the essence of war.

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The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

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Every battle is won before it is fought.

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The dance of battle is always played to the same impatient rhythm. What begins in a surge of violent motion is always reduced to the perfectly still.

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The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls is the relative size of your force at the point where you join in battle. You can strike with the few and be many if you strike your adversary in his gaps. Seek out places where the defense is not strict, the place not tightly guarded, the generals weak, the troops disorderly, the supplies are scarce and the forces are isolated.

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Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow.

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Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation.

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The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay plans against you.

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Attack the enemy's strategy.

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These are the six ways of courting defeat - neglect to estimate the enemy's strength; want of authority; defective training; unjustifiable anger; nonobservance of discipline; failure to use picked men.

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