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Sun Tzu

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We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country -- its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.


— Sun Tzu


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When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION.


— Sun Tzu


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When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE.


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The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.


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first lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle;  if you will not begin with stratagem but rely on brute strength alone, victory will no longer be assured


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the worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation


— Sun Tzu


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When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home.


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Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground.


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Be stern in the council-chamber, [Show no weakness, and insist on your plans being ratified by the sovereign.] so that you may control the situation.


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Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise;  for the result is waste of time and   general stagnation.


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The finding of Sun Bin's work is considered to be extremely important both because of Sun Bin's relationship to Sun Tzu and because of the work's addition to the body of military thought in late Chinese antiquity. Traditionalists attribute the authorship of The Art of War to the historical figure Sun Wu who is chronicled in the Records of the Grand Historian and the Spring and Autumn Annals. In 1972 scholars uncovered a collection of ancient texts written on unusually well-preserved bamboo slips.

His work continues to influence both Asian and Western culture and politics. Traditional accounts state that his descendant Sun Bin also wrote a treatise on military tactics titled Sun Bin's Art of War. Both Sun Wu and Sun Bin were referred to as Sun Tzu in classical Chinese writings and some historians believed that Sun Wu was in fact Sun Bin until Sun Bin's own treatise was discovered in 1972.

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