The Art of War by Sun-Tzu

[Lecter]

If you cannot divide and move,
you cannot talk about
surprise maneuvers.

Chapter 3: "Planning the Attack"

[Lecter]

Attack when they are slacking off,
make your move when a gap opens up.

Chapter 1 "On Assessments"

[Lecter]

Advancing and retreating contrary to
government orders is not done for
personal interest, but only to safeguard
the lives of the people and accord with
the true benefit of the government.

Chapter 10, "The Terrain"

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At a standoff, if you rush in and strike when
you see a gap, how can the enemy fend you off?
Having gained the advantage, you retreat,
hastening back to your stronghold for
self-defense—then how can the enemy pursue you?
Military conditions are based on speed—come
like the wind, go like lightning, and opponents
will be unable to overcome you.

Chapter 6: "Emptiness and Fullness"

[Lecter]

If people are treated with benevolence,
faithfulness, and justice,
then they will be of one mind,
and will be glad to serve.

Chapter 1: "On Assessment"

[Lecter]

If the truth leaks out,
your strategy will be foiled.
If the soldiers worry,
they will be hesitant and fearful.

Chapter 11: "The Nine Kinds of Terrain"

[Lecter]

Ordinarily, an army likes high places and dislikes low ground,
values light and despises darkness.

Chapter 9: "Maneuvering Armies"

[Lecter]

As long as you have not seen vulnerable
formations in opponents, you hide your form,
preparing yourself in such a way as to be
invincible, in order to preserve yourself.
When opponents have vulnerable formations,
then it is time to go out to attack them.

Chapter 4: "Formation"

[Lecter]

This means that if you are planning to
mobilize your forces and embark upon a
campaign, if you do not first think about
the calamities of danger and destruction,
you will not be able to reap any advantage.

Chapter 2: "On Waging Battle"

[Lecter]

Therefore, when a military force
moves swiftly, it is like the wind—
when it goes slowly, it is like the forest;
it is rapacious as fire, immovable as mountains.

Chapter 7: "Armed Contest"

[Lecter]

Armaments are instruments of ill omen, war is a
dangerous affair, it is imperative to prevent
disastrous defeat, so it will not do to mobilize
an army for petty reasons—arms are only to be
used when there is no choice but to do so.

Chapter 12, "The Incendiary Attack"

[Lecter]

Harmony among people is the basis of
the way of military operations;
the right weather and an
advantageous position help.

Chapter 1 "On Assessments"

[Lecter]

Overcome your opponent by calculation.

Chapter 3: "Planning the Attack"

[Lecter]

Trustworthiness means to make people sure of
punishment or reward. Humaneness means love
and compassion for people, being aware of their
toils. Courage means to seize opportunities to
make certain of victory, without vacillation.
Sternness means to establish discipline
in the ranks by strict punishments.

Chapter 1 "On Assessments"

[Lecter]

Once people are unified,
the brave cannot proceed alone,
the timid cannot retreat alone—
this is the rule for employing a group.

Chapter 7: "Armed Contest"

[Lecter]

If you make it clear what is to be rewarded and
what punished, make your directives reliable,
keep your machines in good repair, train and
exercise your officers and troops, and let
their strengths be known so as to overcome
the opponent psychologically,
this is considered very good.

Chapter 3: "Planning the Attack"

[Lecter]

The condition of a military force is
that its essential factor is speed,
taking advantage of others' failure
to catch up, going by routes they
do not expect, attacking where
they are not on guard.

Chapter 11: "The Nine Kinds of Terrain"

[Lecter]

Ordinary people see the means
of victory but do not know the
forms by which to ensure victory.

Chapter 4: "Formation"

[Lecter]

What causes opponents to
come of their own accord is
the prospect of gain.

Chapter 6: "Emptiness and Fullness"

[Lecter]

Discipline means organization,
chain of command, and logistics.

Chapter 1 "On Assessments"

[Lecter]

Generals in the field must already be
acquainted with all the sciences of
warfare before they can command their
own soldiers and assess battle formations.

Chapter 3: "Planning the Attack"

[Lecter]

To win in battle or make a successful siege
without rewarding the meritous is
unlucky and earns the name of stinginess.
Therefore, it is said that an enlightened
government considers this, and good
military leadership rewards merit.

Chapter 12, "The Incendiary Attack"

[Lecter]

Stir opponents up,
making them respond to you;
then you can observe
their forms of behavior, and
whether they are orderly or confused.

Chapter 6: "Emptiness and Fullness"

[Lecter]

A military body goes through
myriad transformations,
in which everything is blended.
Nothing is not orthodox,
nothing is not unorthodox.

Chapter 2: "On Waging Battle"

[Lecter]

Great wisdom is not obvious,
great merit is not advertised.
When you see the subtle,
it is easy to win—what has it to
do with bravery or cleverness?

Chapter 4: "Formation"

[Lecter]

The comprehensiveness of
adaptive movement is limitless.

Chapter 5: "Strategic Advance"

[Lecter]

Those whose words are humble while they
increase war preparations are going to
advance. Those whose words are strong
and who advance aggressively
are going to retreat.

Chapter 9: "Maneuvering Armies"

[Lecter]

Everyone likes security
and dislikes danger.

Chapter 7: "Armed Contest"

[Lecter]

Adaptations to different grounds,
advantages of contraction and expansion,
patterns of human feelings
and contradictions—
these must be examined.

Chapter 11: "The Nine Kinds of Terrain"

[Lecter]

The small cannot stand up o the large—
this means that if a small country does
not assess its power and dares to become
the enemy of a large country, no matter
how firm its defenses be, it will inevitably
become a captive nation.

Chapter 3: "Planning the Attack"

[Lecter]

Only when you know every detail
of the lay of the land
can you maneuver and control.

Chapter 7: "Armed Contest"

[Lecter]

Use humility to make them haughty.

Chapter 1 "On Assessments"

[Lecter]

If you hide your form,
conceal your tracks,
and always remain strictly prepared,
then you can be invulnerable yourself.

Chapter 4: "Formation"

[Lecter]

Those who discern when
to use many or few troops
are victorious.

Chapter 3: "Planning the Attack"

[Lecter]

Among officials of the opposing regime, there are
intelligent ones who lose their jobs, there are
those who are punished for excesses, and there
are also greedy favorites. There are those
confined to the lower ranks, there are those who
fail to get appointments, there are those who seek
to take advantage of a collapse to extend their
own wealth and power, and there are those who
always act with deceit and duplicity.

Chapter 13: "On the Use of Spies"

[Lecter]

When the speed of rushing water reaches the
point where it can move boulders, this is the
force of momentum. When the speed of a
hawk is such that it can strike and kill, this is
precision. So it is with skillful warriors—
their force is swift,
their precision is close.

Chapter 5: "Strategic Advance"

[Lecter]

Making the armies
able to take on opponents
without being defeated is a matter of
unorthodox and orthodox methods.

Chapter 5: "Strategic Advance"

[Lecter]

Rewards should not be out of proportion,
punishments should not be arbitrary.

Chapter 1 "On Assessments"

[Lecter]

Complete means that when the Generals
are good and wise, then they are both
loyal and capable, to be lacking means
to be missing something.

Chapter 3: "Planning the Attack"

[Lecter]

Have your soldiers adapt their movements
according to your signals.

Chapter 7: "Armed Contest"

[Lecter]

Firm in defense, victorious in offense,
able to keep whole without ever losing,
seeing victory before it happens,
accurately recognizing defeat
before it occurs—this is called
truly subtle penetration of mysteries.

Chapter 4: "Formation"

[Lecter]

Adaptation means...not fighting over
territory that could be contested when
it is realized that even if it were won,
it would be hard to keep, it would be of
no use anyway, and it would cost people
life and limb.

Chapter 8: "Adaptations"

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Once you know
the opponent's conditions,
and also know the advantages of the
terrain, you can win in battle.
If you know neither,
you will lose in battle.

Chapter 10, "The Terrain"

[Lecter]

The subtle is stillness,
the mysterious is movement,
stillness is defense,
movement is attack.

Chapter 6: "Emptiness and Fullness"

[Lecter]

When you are spending a great deal
of money on a military operation,
if the army is out in the field too long,
your budget will not be enough
to cover the expense.

Chapter 2: "On Waging Battle"

[Lecter]

Unless you know the mountains and forests,
the defiles and impasses,
and the lay of the marshes and swamps,
you cannot maneuver with an armed force.
Unless you use local guides,
you cannot get the advantages of the land.

Chapter 7: "Armed Contest"

[Lecter]

When victory and defeat are
already determined before
movement and uprising,
you do not become confused
in your actions and do not wear
yourself out rising up.

Chapter 10, "The Terrain"

[Lecter]

Seduce them with the prospect of gain,
send interlopers in among them,
have rhetoricians use fast talk
to ingratiate themselves with their
leaders and followers, and divide up
their organization and power.

Chapter 1 "On Assessments"

[Lecter]

If they rule armies without knowing
the arts of complete adaptivity,
even if they know what there is to gain,
they cannot get people to work for them.

Chapter 8: "Adaptations"

[Lecter]

Nation, army, division, batallion, unit—
great or small, keep it intact and your
dignity will be improved thereby;
destroy it and your dignity will suffer.

Chapter 3: "Planning the Attack"

[Lecter]

Good warriors make others come to them,
and do not go to others. This is the principle of
emptiness and fullness of others and self.
When you induce opponents to come to you,
then their force is always empty; as long as
you do not go to them, your force is always
full. Attacking emptiness with fullness
is like throwing stones on eggs—
the eggs are sure to break.

Chapter 6: "Emptiness and Fullness"

[Lecter]

If you are equal,
then fight if you are able.
If you are fewer,
then keep away if you are able.
If you are not as good,
then flee if you are able.

Chapter 3: "Planning the Attack"

[Lecter]

The morning means the beginning,
the midday means the middle, and the
evening means the end. What this says
is that soldiers are keen at first, but
eventually slump and think of going home,
so at this point, they are vulnerable.

Chapter 7: "Armed Contest"

[Lecter]

When the opponent is just
beginning to plan its strategy,
it is easy to strike.

Chapter 3: "Planning the Attack"

[Lecter]

When an army goes forth
and crosses a border,
it should burn its boats and bridges
to show its populace it has
no intention of looking back.

Chapter 11: "The Nine Kinds of Terrain"

[Lecter]

Those on the defensive are so because
they do not have enough to win;
those on the offense are so because
they have more than enough to win.

Chapter 4: "Formation"

[Lecter]

When it is disadvantageous for either side to
go forth, it is called standoff terrain. On
standoff terrain, even though the opponent
offers you an advantage, you do not go for it—
you withdraw, inducing the enemy half out,
and then you attack to your advantage.

Chapter 10, "The Terrain"

[Lecter]

Knowledge that does not go beyond
what the generality knows
is not really good.

Chapter 4: "Formation"

[Lecter]

If you are quick, then you can
economize on expenditures
and allow the people to rest.

Chapter 2: "On Waging Battle"

[Lecter]

If the leaders can be humane and just,
sharing both the gains and the troubles
of the people, then the troops will be
loyal and naturally identify with the
interests of the leadership.

Chapter 1 "On Assessments"

[Lecter]

Making yourself invincible means
knowing yourself; waiting for
vulnerability in opponents means
knowing others.

Chapter 4: "Formation"

[Lecter]

If you carry on alliances
with strong countries,
your enemies won't dare to plot against you.

Chapter 3: "Planning the Attack"

[Lecter]

Compare where you are sufficient with
where the enemy is sufficient,
compare where you are lacking with
where the enemy is lacking.

Chapter 6: "Emptiness and Fullness"

[Lecter]

Those who know these things
can be certain of victory
by the force of momentum.

Chapter 9: "Maneuvering Armies"

[Lecter]

The strategy for employing the military is this: If your
strength is ten times theirs, surround them; if five,
then attack them; if double, then divide your forces.

If you are equal in strength to the enemy, you can
engage him. If fewer, you can circumvent him. If
outmatched, you can avoid him. Thus a small enemy that
acts inflexibly will become the captive of a large enemy.

Chapter 3: "Planning the Attack"

[Lecter]

When ten or more chariots are captured, reward the
first soldier to capture one. Change their flags and
pennants to yours; intermix and employ them with our
own chariots. Treat the captured soldiers well in order
to nurture them for your use. This is referred to as
"Conquering the enemy and growing stronger."

Chapter 2: "On Waging Battle"

[Lecter]

The wise General must contemplate the
intermixture of gain and loss. If they discern
advantage in a difficult situation, their
efforts can be trusted. If they discern harm
in a prospective advantage, difficulties
can be resolved.

Chapter 8: "Adaptations"

[Lecter]

If you want to engage the enemy in battle,
do not array your forces near a river to
confront the invader but look for tenable
ground and occupy the heights. Do not
confront the river current's flow.

Chapter 9: "Maneuvering Armies"

[Lecter]

Only the farsighted rulers and their superior
commanders who can get the most
intelligent people as their spies are destined
to accomplish great things.

Chapter 12, "The Incendiary Attack"

[Lecter]

Gongs, drums, pennants, and flags are the
means to unify the men's ears and eyes. When
the men have been unified the courageous
will not be able to advance alone, the fearful
will not be able to retreat alone. This is the
method for employing large numbers.

Chapter 7: "Armed Contest"

[Lecter]

On level plains deploy the army on easy
terrain with the right flank positioned
against high ground, fatal terrain
to the fore, and tenable terrain to the rear.

Chapter 9: "Maneuvering Armies"

[Lecter]

There are six types of ill-fated armies:
running off, lax, sinking, crumbling,
chaotic, and routed. These disasters are not
brought about by Heaven and Earth but
by the General's errors.

Chapter 10, "The Terrain"

[Lecter]

One who knows the enemy and knows himself will
not be endangered in a hundred engagements.
One who does not know the enemy but knows
himself will sometimes be victorious, sometimes
meet with defeat. One who knows neither the
enemy nor himself will invariably be defeated
in every engagement.

Chapter 3: "Planning the Attack"

[Lecter]

If the enemy is fording a river to advance, do
not confront them in water. When half
their forces have crossed, it will be
advantageous to strike them.

Chapter 9: "Maneuvering Armies"

[Lecter]

One who frequently imposes punishments
is in great difficulty.

Chapter 9: "Maneuvering Armies"

[Lecter]

For the armies you want to strike, the cities
you want to attack, and the men you want to
assassinate, you must first know the names of
the defensive commander, his assistants, staff,
door guards, and attendants. You must have
your spies search out and learn them all.

Chapter 13: "On the Use of Spies"

[Lecter]

To encourage the enemy to come of their
own volition, extend some premise of profit.
To prevent them from coming forth,
let them see the potential harm.

Chapter 6: "Emptiness and Fullness"

[Lecter]

Ground that gives you or the enemy
the advantage in occupying it is
contested terrain;
do not attack the enemy on
contested terrain.

Chapter 11: "The Nine Kinds of Terrain"

[Lecter]

After crossing rivers
you must distance yourself from them.

Chapter 9: "Maneuvering Armies"

[Lecter]

Configurations of terrain are an aid to the
army. Analyzing the enemy, taking control of
victory, estimating ravines and defiles, the
distant and the near, is the Tao of
the superior General.

Chapter 10, "The Terrain"

[Lecter]

A commander must be expert at the use of the
military and ensure that with the enemy his
vanguard and rearguard cannot relieve each
other, and that the main body of his army
and its special detachments cannot
support each other.

Chapter 11: "The Nine Kinds of Terrain"

[Lecter]

In incendiary warfare if fires are ignited but
their army remains quiet, then wait and do
not attack; when fires flare into a
conflagration, if you can follow up,
do so but if you cannot, desist.

Chapter 12, "The Incendiary Attack"

[Lecter]

In incendiary warfare if fires are ignited
upwind, do not attack downwind. Winds
that arise in the daytime will persist;
those that arise at night will stop.

Chapter 12, "The Incendiary Attack"

[Lecter]

Where a feudal ruler does battle within his
own territory, it is terrain that permits the
scattering of his troops; do not fight on
scattering terrain.

Chapter 11: "The Nine Kinds of Terrain"

[Lecter]

One who has emissaries come forth with
offerings wants to rest for a while.

Chapter 9: "Maneuvering Armies"

[Lecter]

If you can advance and the enemy can also
advance, the terrain is termed "accessible." In an
accessible configuration, first occupy the heights
and side, and improve the routes for transporting
provisions. Then when you engage in battle, the
terrain will be advantageous.

Chapter 10, "The Terrain"

[Lecter]

Ground that gives access through a narrow
defile, and where exit is tortuous, allowing
an enemy in small numbers to attack your
main force, is terrain vulnerable to ambush
so you must devise contingency plans.

Chapter 11: "The Nine Kinds of Terrain"

[Lecter]

The army's disposition of force is like water.
Just like water's configuration avoids heights and
races downward, so the army's disposition of
force avoids the substantial and strikes the
vacuous. Water configures its flow in accord
with the terrain; the army controls its victory
in accord with the enemy.

Chapter 6: "Emptiness and Fullness"

[Lecter]

Intelligence is of the essence in warfare—
it is what the armies depend upon in their every move.

Chapter 12, "The Incendiary Attack"

[Lecter]

To cross mountains follow the valleys,
search out tenable ground, and occupy the
heights. If the enemy holds the heights,
do not climb up to engage them in battle.

Chapter 9: "Maneuvering Armies"

[Lecter]

Ground that is accessible to both sides is
intermediate terrain; do not get cut off
on intermediate terrain.

Chapter 11: "The Nine Kinds of Terrain"

[Lecter]

If the Tao of Warfare indicates certain victory,
even though the ruler has instructed that
combat should be avoided, if you must engage in
battle it is permissible. If the Tao of Warfare
indicates you will not be victorious, even
though the ruler instructs you to engage in
battle, not fighting is permissible.

Chapter 10, "The Terrain"

[Lecter]

If you impose punishments on the troops
before they have become attached, they will
not be submissive. If they are not submissive,
they will be difficult to employ. If you do not
impose punishments after the troops have
become attached, they cannot be used.

Chapter 9: "Maneuvering Armies"

[Lecter]

One who knows when he can fight, and
when he cannot fight, will be victorious.

Chapter 3: "Planning the Attack"

[Lecter]

The psychology of a soldier is to resist when
surrounded, fight when you have to, and
obey orders explicitly when in danger.

Chapter 11: "The Nine Kinds of Terrain"

[Lecter]

One who excels at warfare first establishes himself
in a position where he cannot be defeated while
not losing the opportunity to defeat the enemy.
For this reason, the victorious army first realizes
the conditions for victory, and then seeks to
engage in battle. The vanquished army fights first,
and then seeks victory.

Chapter 3: "Planning the Attack"

[Lecter]

One whose General is capable and
not interfered with by the ruler
will be victorious.

Chapter 3: "Planning the Attack"

[Lecter]

If the enemy is rested, tire him; if he is well
fed, make him hungry; if he is at rest, move
him. Go to a position to which he must race
and race to a position he does not expect.

Chapter 6: "Emptiness and Fullness"

[Lecter]

One who seeks peace without setting any
prior conditions is executing a stratagem.

Chapter 9: "Maneuvering Armies"

[Lecter]

One who, fully prepared, awaits the
unprepared will be victorious.

Chapter 3: "Planning the Attack"

[Lecter]

When employing the military in battle,
a victory that is long in coming will blunt
their weapons and dampen their ardor.
If you attack cities, their strength will be
exhausted. If you expose the army to a
prolonged campaign, the state's resources
will be inadequate.

Chapter 2: "On Waging Battle"

[Lecter]

The highest realization of warfare is to
attack the enemy's plans; next is to attack
their alliances; next to attack their army;
and the lowest is to attack their
fortified cities.

Chapter 3: "Planning the Attack"

[Lecter]

If you treat them well,
you will get their utmost power.

Chapter 10, "The Terrain"

[Lecter]

One who frequently grants rewards
is in deep distress.

Chapter 9: "Maneuvering Armies"

[Lecter]

There are five kinds of spies that can be employed: local
spies; inside agents; double agents; expendable spies (our
own agents who obtain false information we have
deliberately leaked to them and who pass it on to the
enemy); and non-expendable spies (those who return
from the enemy camp to report). When the five kinds of
spies are all active, and no one knows their methods of
operation, this is called the imperceptible web, and is
the ruler's treasure.

Chapter 12, "The Incendiary Attack"

[Lecter]

If you can go forth but the return is difficult,
the terrain is termed "suspended." In a suspended
configuration, if the enemy is unprepared, go
forth and conquer them. If the enemy is prepared
and you advance without being victorious,
it will be difficult to turn back and the terrain
is not advantageous.

Chapter 10, "The Terrain"

[Lecter]

Obtaining one hundred victories in one hundred battles
is not the pinnacle of excellence.
Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting
is the true pinnacle of excellence.

Chapter 3: "Planning the Attack"

[Lecter]

Commanders who are expert at employing
the military are like the "sudden striker."
The sudden striker is a snake indigenous to
Mount Heng. If you strike its head, its tail
comes to its aid; if you strike its tail, its head
comes to its aid; if you strike its middle,
both head and tail come to its aid.

Chapter 11: "The Nine Kinds of Terrain"

[Lecter]

One who is at first excessively brutal and then
fears the masses is the pinnacle of stupidity.

Chapter 9: "Maneuvering Armies"

[Lecter]

There are five kinds of incendiary attack:
setting fire to personnel; to stores; to
transport vehicles and equipment;
to munitions; and to supply installations.

Chapter 12, "The Incendiary Attack"

[Lecter]

You must quickly get away from deadly
configurations of terrain such as precipitous
gorges with mountain torrents. Do not
approach them. When you keep them at a
distance, the enemy is forced to approach
them. Then when you face them, the enemy is
compelled to have them at their rear.

Chapter 9: "Maneuvering Armies"

[Lecter]

One whose troops repeatedly congregate in
small groups here and there, whispering
together, has lost the masses.

Chapter 9: "Maneuvering Armies"

[Lecter]

Warfare is the way of deception. Thus,
although you are capable, display incapability.
When you are committed to employing your
forces, feign inactivity. When your objective
is nearby, make it appear as if distant; when
far away, create the illusion of being nearby.

Chapter 1 "On Assessments"

[Lecter]

One whose troops half advance and
half retreat is enticing you.

Chapter 9: "Maneuvering Armies"

[Lecter]

When an army has penetrated deep into enemy
territory, and has many of the enemy's walled
cities and towns at its back, it is on critical
terrain; plunder the enemy's resources.

Chapter 11: "The Nine Kinds of Terrain"

[Lecter]

Implementing an incendiary attack depends
on the proper conditions. Equipment for
incendiary attack should be fully prepared
before required. Launching an incendiary
attack has its appropriate seasons, igniting
the fire on the proper days. As for the
seasons, it is the time of the dry spell.

Chapter 12, "The Incendiary Attack"

[Lecter]

If you have the advantage, move into action;
if you do not, remain in place.

Chapter 11: "The Nine Kinds of Terrain"

[Lecter]

In incendiary warfare if fires are started
within the enemy camp, you should immediately
respond with an attack from the outside.

Chapter 12, "The Incendiary Attack"

[Lecter]

Unless someone has the wisdom of a sage,
he cannot use spies; unless he is benevolent
and righteous, he cannot employ spies; unless
he is subtle and astute, he cannot perceive
the substance in intelligence reports.
It is subtle, subtle!

Chapter 13: "On the Use of Spies"

[Lecter]

In general, the Tao of an invader is that
when one has penetrated deeply into enemy
territory, the army will be unified, and the
defenders will not be able to conquer you.
But where troops have penetrated shallowly,
they will be inclined to scatter.

Chapter 11: "The Nine Kinds of Terrain"

[Lecter]

In a constricted terrain configuration,
if you occupy them first, fully deploy
throughout in order to await the enemy.
If the enemy occupies them first and fully
deploys in them, do not follow them in.
If they do not fully deploy in them,
then follow them in.

Chapter 10, "The Terrain"

[Lecter]

Where one has penetrated only barely into
enemy territory, it is marginal terrain;
do not stay on marginal terrain.

Chapter 11: "The Nine Kinds of Terrain"

[Lecter]

Mountains and forests, passes and natural hazards,
wetlands and swamps, and any such roads
difficult to traverse constitute difficult terrain;
press ahead on difficult terrain.

Chapter 11: "The Nine Kinds of Terrain"

[Lecter]

If the enemy troops are aroused and approach
your forces, only to maintain their positions
without engaging in battle or breaking off
the confrontation, you must carefully
investigate the situation.

Chapter 9: "Maneuvering Armies"

[Lecter]

Someone unfamiliar with the mountains and
forests, gorges and defiles, the shape of
marshes and wetlands cannot advance the
army. One who does not employ local guides
cannot gain advantages of terrain.

Chapter 7: "Armed Contest"

[Lecter]

One who recognizes how to employ large
and small numbers will be victorious.

Chapter 3: "Planning the Attack"

[Lecter]

Ground on which you will survive only if
you fight with all your might, but will perish
if you fail to do so, is terrain with no way out;
take the battle to the enemy.

Chapter 11: "The Nine Kinds of Terrain"

[Lecter]

There are five dangerous character traits in
a General: one committed to dying can be
slain; one committed to living can be
captured; one easily angered can be insulted;
one obsessed with being scrupulous and
untainted can be shamed; and one who
loves the people can be troubled.

Chapter 8: "Adaptations"

[Lecter]

The General is the supporting pillar of state.
If his talents are all-encompassing, the state
will invariably be strong. If the supporting
pillar is marked by fissures, the state
will invariably grow weak.

Chapter 3: "Planning the Attack"

[Lecter]

Those who excel at defense bury themselves
away below the lowest depths of Earth. Those
who excel at offense move from above the
greatest heights of Heaven. Thus they are
able to preserve themselves and attain
complete victory.

Chapter 4: "Formation"

[Lecter]

If someone is victorious in battle and
succeeds in attack but does not exploit the
achievement, it is disastrous, and his fate
should be termed "wasteful and tarrying."
Thus it is said the wise General ponders it,
the good General cultivates it.

Chapter 12, "The Incendiary Attack"

[Lecter]

One who excels in employing the military
does not conscript the people twice or
transport provisions a third time. If you obtain
your equipment from within the state and
reply on seizing provisions from the enemy,
then the army's foodstuffs will be sufficient.

Chapter 2: "On Waging Battle"

[Lecter]

If orders are consistently implemented to
instruct the people, then the people will
submit. If not, the people will not submit.
One whose orders are consistently carried
out has established a mutual relationship
with the people.

Chapter 9: "Maneuvering Armies"

[Lecter]

The pinnacle of military deployment should
appear formless. If it is formless, then even
the deepest spy cannot discern it or the
wise make plans against it.

Chapter 6: "Emptiness and Fullness"

[Lecter]

If the enemy is in great numbers with strict
discipline in the ranks and is about to
advance on you, get ahead of him to seize
something he cannot afford to lose and
he will do your bidding.

Chapter 11: "The Nine Kinds of Terrain"

[Lecter]

The strategy for employing the military is:
Do not approach high mountains; do not confront those who
have hills behind them. Do not pursue feigned retreats.
Do not attack animated troops. Do not swallow an
army acting as bait. Do not obstruct an army
retreating homeward. If you besiege an army you must
leave an outlet. Do not press an exhausted invader.

Chapter 7: "Armed Contest"

[Lecter]

Whoever occupies the battleground first and
awaits the enemy will be at ease; whoever
occupies the battleground afterward and
must race to the conflict will be fatigued.
Thus one who excels at warfare compels men
and is not compelled by other men.

Chapter 6: "Emptiness and Fullness"

[Lecter]

When the General regards his troops as
young children, they will advance into the
deepest valleys with him. When he regards
the troops as his beloved children, they will
be willing to die with him.

Chapter 10, "The Terrain"

[Lecter]

If an enemy in close proximity remains quiet,
they are relying on their tactical occupation
of ravines. If while far off they challenge you
to battle, they want you to advance because
they occupy easy terrain to their advantage.

Chapter 9: "Maneuvering Armies"