The Art of War

5th century BC Chinese military treatise

For other uses, see The Art of War (disambiguation).

"Know thy enemy" redirects here. For the episode of The Vampire Diaries, see Know Thy Enemy. For other uses, see Know Your Enemy (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Sun Bin's Art of War.

The Art of War

Author| Sun Tzu (traditional)
Language| Classical Chinese
Subject| Military art
Genre| Military strategy

Publication date

| 5th century BC
Publication place| China

Dewey Decimal

| 355.02
LC Class| U101 .S95

Original text

| The Art of War at Chinese Wikisource
Translation| The Art of War at Wikisource
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese| 孫子兵法
Simplified Chinese| 孙子兵法
Literal meaning| "Master Sun's Military Methods"
| Transcriptions

Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin| Sūnzǐ bīngfǎ
Bopomofo| ㄙㄨㄣ ㄗˇ ㄅㄧㄥ ㄈㄚˇ
Wade–Giles| Sun1-tzu3 ping1-fa3
IPA| [swə́ntsɹ̩̀ píŋfà]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization| Syūnjí bīngfaat
Jyutping| Syun1 zi2 bing1 faat3
IPA| [syn˥tsi˧˥ pɪŋ˥fat̚˧]
Southern Min
Tâi-lô| Sun-tzú ping-huat
Old Chinese
Baxter–Sagart (2014)| *sˤun tsəʔ praŋ p.kap
Chinese military texts

Seven Military Classics

* The Art of War
* Wuzi
* The Methods of the Sima
* Six Secret Teachings
* Wei Liaozi
* Three Strategies of Huang Shigong
* Questions and Replies

Other texts

* Sun Bin's Art of War
* Thirty-Six Stratagems
* Wujing Zongyao
* Huolongjing
* Jixiao Xinshu
* Wubei Zhi

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Military

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* Branches:
* Army
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* Specialties:
* Staff
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* Land units:
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* Naval units:
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* Air units:
* Fighters
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* Fire-control system
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* Sonar
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* Historical:
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* Development:
* Basic training
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Battlespace

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* Sea
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* Blue
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* * *

* Cyber
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Weapons

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* Unconventional

Tactics

List of military tactics

* Aerial
* Airlift
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* Airbridge
* Airdrop
* Anti-aircraft
* Anti-sub
* Anti-tank
* Battle
* Cavalry
* Charge
* CQC
* Counterattack
* Counterinsurgency
* Convoy
* Defeat in detail
* Foxhole
* Drone
* Envelopment
* Formation
* Guerrilla
* Naval
* Rapid dominance
* Encirclement
* Investment
* Siege
* Swarm
* Screen
* Tactical objective
* Target saturation
* Trench
* Withdrawal

Operational

* Military operation
* Special
* Operations research
* Blitzkrieg
* Expeditionary
* Deep operation
* Maneuver
* Operational manoeuvre group
* Raid
* Covert
* Stay-behind

Strategy

List of military strategies and concepts

* Military campaign
* Anti-access
* Attrition
* Commerce raiding
* Counter-offensive
* Culminating
* Defence in depth
* Fabian
* Empty fort
* Mosaic
* Deception
* Defensive
* Depth
* Goal
* Nuclear
* Naval
* Offensive
* Scorched earth

Grand strategy

* Asymmetric
* Blockade
* Broken-backed
* Class
* Cold war
* Colonial
* Conquest
* Containment
* Divide and conquer
* Economic
* Endemic
* Fleet in being
* Irregular
* Liberation
* Limited
* Network-centric
* New generation
* Perpetual
* Political
* Princely
* Proxy
* Religious
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* Strategic
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* Technology
* Theater
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Administrative

* Branch
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* Training
* Service
* Sociology

Organization

* Area of responsibility
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* Command and control
* Doctrine
* Order of battle
* Principles of war
* Economy of force
* Medicine
* Engineers
* Intelligence
* Ranks
* Technology and equipment

Personnel

* Recruitment
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* Training
* Specialism
* Soldier
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* Women
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* Counter-recruitment

Logistics

* History
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* Supply-chain management
* Military–industrial complex
* Base
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* Outpost

Science

* Power projection
* Loss-of-strength gradient
* Lanchester's laws
* Force multiplication
* Morale

Law

* Belligerent
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* Jewish laws on war
* Right of conquest
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* Rules of engagement
* Self-determination
* Martial law
* War crime
* War and genocide
* War treason

Theory

* Air supremacy
* Appeasement
* Command of the sea
* Deterrence theory
* Full-spectrum dominance
* Overmatch
* Just war theory
* Principles of war
* Philosophy of war
* Security dilemma
* Tripwire force
* Wargaming
* Simulation
* Exercises
* Combat effectiveness
* Center of gravity

Non-warfare

* Arms control
* Counter-insurgency
* Deterrence
* Disaster response
* Grey-zone
* Gunboat diplomacy
* Humanitarian aid
* Law enforcement
* Low-intensity conflict
* Military engineering
* Peacekeeping
* Peacebuilding
* Peace through strength
* Show of force

Culture

* Awards and decorations
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* Warrior
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* Anti-war movement
* Foot drill
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* Uniform
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* Militarization / Militarism
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Books

* Seven Military Classics
* The Art of War
* De re militari
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The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the late Spring and Autumn period (roughly 5th century BC). The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu ("Master Sun"), is composed of 13 chapters. Each one is devoted to a different set of skills or art related to warfare and how it applies to military strategy and tactics. For almost 1,500 years, it was the lead text in an anthology that was formalized as the Seven Military Classics by Emperor Shenzong of Song in 1080. The Art of War remains one of the most influential works on strategy of all time[1] and has shaped both East Asian and Western military theory and thinking.[2]

The book contains a detailed explanation and analysis of the 5th-century BC Chinese military, from weapons, environmental conditions, and strategy to rank and discipline. Sun also stressed the importance of intelligence operatives and espionage to the war effort. Considered one of history's finest military tacticians and analysts, his teachings and strategies formed the basis of advanced military training throughout the world.

The text was first translated into a European language in 1772, when the French Jesuit priest Jean Joseph Marie Amiot produced a French version; a revised edition was published in 1782. A partial translation into English was attempted by British officer Everard Ferguson Calthrop in 1905 under the title The Book of War. The first annotated English translation was completed and published by Lionel Giles in 1910.[3] Military and political leaders such as the Chinese communist revolutionary Mao Zedong, Japanese daimyō Takeda Shingen, Vietnamese general Võ Nguyên Giáp, and American generals Douglas MacArthur and Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. are all cited as having drawn inspiration from the book.[4]

## History

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### Text and commentaries

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The Art of War is traditionally attributed to an ancient Chinese military general known as Sun Tzu (pinyin: Sūnzǐ), meaning 'Master Sun'. Sun Tzu is said to have lived in the 6th century BC, but the earliest parts of The Art of War probably date to at least 100 years later.[5]

Sima Qian's Shiji, the first of China's Twenty-Four Histories, records an early Chinese tradition that a text on military matters was written by one Sun Wu (孫武) from the state of Qi, and that this text had been read and studied by King Helü of Wu (r. 514–495 BC).[6] This text was traditionally identified with the received Master Sun's Art of War. The conventional view was that Sun Wu was a military theorist from the end of the Spring and Autumn period (776–471 BC) who fled Qi to the southeastern state of Wu, where he is said to have impressed the king with his ability to quickly train officials, including court women, in military discipline—and to have made Wu's armies powerful enough to challenge the rival state of Chu to Wu's west. This view is still widely held in China.[7]

The strategist and warlord Cao Cao in the early 3rd century AD authored the earliest known commentary to the Art of War.[6] Cao's preface makes clear that he edited the text and removed certain passages, but the extent of his changes were unclear historically.[6] The Art of War appears throughout the bibliographical catalogs of the Chinese dynastic histories, but listings of its divisions and size varied widely.[6]

### Authorship

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Fragments of The Art of War discovered as a part of the Yinqueshan Han Slips, showing the version of The Art of War that was popular in Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD)

Beginning around the 12th century, Sun Tzu's historical existence began to be questioned by Chinese scholars, primarily on the grounds that he is not mentioned in the historical classic Zuo Zhuan, which mentions most of the notable figures from the Spring and Autumn period.[6] The name "Sun Wu" (孫武) does not appear in any text prior to the Records of the Grand Historian,[8] and has been suspected to be a made-up descriptive cognomen meaning "the fugitive warrior", glossing the surname "Sun" as the related term "fugitive" (xùn 遜), while "Wu" (wǔ 武) is (1) the ancient Chinese virtue of "martial, valiant" and (2) a Jianghuai dialectal synonym of 士; shì "knight",[9][10] which corresponds to Sunzi's role as the hero's doppelgänger in the story of Wu Zixu.[11] In the early 20th century, the Chinese writer and reformer Liang Qichao theorized that the text was actually written in the 4th century BC by Sun Tzu's purported descendant Sun Bin, as a number of historical sources mention a military treatise he wrote.[6] Unlike Sun Wu, Sun Bin appears to have been an actual person who was a genuine authority on military matters, and may have been the inspiration for the creation of the historical figure "Sun Tzu" through a form of euhemerism.[11]

In 1972, the Yinqueshan Han slips were discovered in two Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD) tombs near the city of Linyi in Shandong.[12] Among the many bamboo slip writings contained in the tombs, which had been sealed between 134 and 118 BC, were two separate texts: one attributed to "Sun Tzu", corresponding to the received text, and another attributed to Sun Bin, which explains and expands upon the earlier The Art of War by Sunzi.[13] The Sun Bin text's material overlaps with much of the "Sun Tzu" text. The two may be "a single, continuously developing intellectual tradition united under the Sun name".[14] This discovery showed that much of the historical confusion was due to the fact that there were two texts that could have been referred to as "Master Sun's Art of War", not one.[13] The content of the earlier text is about one-third of the chapters of the modern The Art of War, and their text matches very closely.[12] It is now generally accepted that the earlier The Art of War was completed sometime between 500 and 430 BC.[13]

## Chapters

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The Art of War is divided into 13 chapters (or piān); the collection is referred to as being one zhuàn ("whole" or alternatively "chronicle").

The Art of War chapter names and contents  Chapter  | Lionel Giles (1910)[15] | R. L. Wing (1988)  | Ralph D. Sawyer (1996)  | Chow-Hou Wee (2003)  | Michael Nylan (2020)  | Contents

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I  | Laying Plans  | The Calculations  | Initial Estimations  | Detail Assessment and Planning
(Chinese: 始計; pinyin: shîjì)  | First Calculations  | Explores the five fundamental factors (the Way, seasons, terrain, leadership, and management) and seven elements (which of the two sovereigns is imbued with the way or moral law, which side's general is more capable, which side has superior in right time and right place, which side's laws and regulations can be enforced more strictly, which side has more resources, better equipment and stronger army, which side's officers and men are more well-trained and more capable of fighting, which side's rewards and punishments are more fair and clear) that determine the outcomes of military engagements. By thinking, assessing and comparing these points, a commander can calculate his chances of victory. Habitual deviation from these calculations will ensure failure via improper action. The text stresses that war is a very grave matter for the state and must not be commenced without due consideration.
II  | Waging War  | The Challenge  | Waging War  | Waging War
(作戰; zuòzhàn)  | Initiating Battle  | Explains how to understand the economy of warfare and how success requires winning decisive engagements quickly. This section advises that successful military campaigns require limiting the cost of competition and conflict.
III  | Attack by Stratagem  | The Plan of Attack  | Planning Offensives  | Strategic Attack
(謀攻)  | Planning an Attack  | Defines the source of strength as unity, not size, and discusses the five factors that are needed to succeed in any war. In order of importance, these critical factors are: Attack, Strategy, Alliances, Army and Cities.
IV  | Tactical Dispositions  | Positioning  | Military Disposition  | Disposition of the Army
(軍形)  | Forms to Perceive  | Explains the importance of defending existing positions until a commander is capable of advancing from those positions in safety. It teaches commanders the importance of recognizing strategic opportunities, and teaches not to create opportunities for the enemy.
V  | Use of Energy  | Directing  | Strategic Military Power  | Forces
(兵勢)  | The Disposition of Power  | Explains the use of creativity and timing in building an army's momentum.
VI  | Weak Points and Strong  | Illusion and Reality  | Vacuity and Substance  | Weaknesses and Strengths
(虛實)  | Weak and Strong  | Explains how an army's opportunities come from the openings in the environment caused by the relative weakness of the enemy and how to respond to changes in the fluid battlefield over a given area.
VII  | Maneuvering an Army  | Engaging The Force  | Military Combat  | Military Maneuvers
(軍爭)  | Contending Armies  | Explains the dangers of direct conflict and how to win those confrontations when they are forced upon the commander.
VIII  | Variation of Tactics  | The Nine Variations  | Nine Changes  | Variations and Adaptability
(九變)  | Nine Contingencies  | Focuses on the need for flexibility in an army's responses. It explains how to respond to shifting circumstances successfully.
IX  | The Army on the March  | Moving The Force  | Maneuvering the Army  | Movement and Development of Troops
(行軍)  | Fielding the Army  | Describes the different situations in which an army finds itself as it moves through new enemy territories, and how to respond to these situations. Much of this section focuses on evaluating the intentions of others.
X  | Classification of Terrain  | Situational Positioning  | Configurations of Terrain  | Terrain
(地形)  | Conformations of the Lands  | Looks at the three general areas of resistance (distance, dangers and barriers) and the six types of ground positions that arise from them. Each of these six field positions offers certain advantages and disadvantages.
XI  | The Nine Situations  | The Nine Situations  | Nine Terrains  | The Nine Battlegrounds
(九地)  | Nine Kinds of Ground  | Describes the nine common situations (or stages) in a campaign, from scattering to deadly, and the specific focus that a commander will need in order to successfully navigate them.
XII  | Attack by Fire  | The Fiery Attack  | Incendiary Attacks  | Attacking with Fire
(火攻)  | Attacks with Fire  | Explains the general use of weapons and the specific use of the environment as a weapon. This section examines the five targets for attack, the five types of environmental attack and the appropriate responses to such attacks.
XIII  | Use of Spies  | The Use of Intelligence  | Employing Spies  | Intelligence and Espionage
(用間)  | Using Spies  | Focuses on the importance of developing good information sources, and specifies the five types of intelligence sources and how to best manage each of them.

## Cultural influence

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The beginning of The Art of War in a classical bamboo book from the reign of the Qianlong Emperor

### Military and intelligence applications

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See also: Wen and wu

Across East Asia, The Art of War was part of the syllabus for potential candidates of military service examinations.

During the Sengoku period (c. 1467–1568), the Japanese daimyō Takeda Shingen (1521–1573) is said to have become almost invincible in all battles without relying on guns, because he studied The Art of War.[16] The book even gave him the inspiration for his famous battle standard "Fūrinkazan" (Wind, Forest, Fire and Mountain), meaning fast as the wind, silent as a forest, ferocious as fire and immovable as a mountain.

The translator Samuel B. Griffith offers a chapter on "Sun Tzu and Mao Tse-Tung" where The Art of War is cited as influencing Mao's On Guerrilla Warfare, On the Protracted War and Strategic Problems of China's Revolutionary War, and includes Mao's quote: "We must not belittle the saying in the book of Sun Wu Tzu, the great military expert of ancient China, 'Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a thousand battles without disaster.'"[16]

During the Vietnam War, some Viet Cong officers extensively studied The Art of War and reportedly could recite entire passages from memory. General Võ Nguyên Giáp successfully implemented tactics described in The Art of War during the Battle of Dien Bien Phu ending major French involvement in Indochina and leading to the accords which partitioned Vietnam into North and South. General Giáp, later the main PVA military commander in the Vietnam War, was an avid student and practitioner of Sun Tzu's ideas.[17]

#### Outside East Asia

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The United States' defeat in the Vietnam War, more than any other event, brought Sun Tzu to the attention of leaders of U.S. military theory.[17][18][19] The Department of the Army in the United States, through its Command and General Staff College, lists The Art of War as one example of a book that may be kept at a military unit's library.[20] The Art of War is listed on the US Marine Corps Professional Reading Program (formerly known as the Commandant's Reading List). It is recommended reading for all United States Military Intelligence personnel.[21] The Art of War is also used as instructional material at the United States Military Academy (commonly known as West Point), in the course Military Strategy (470).[22] It is also recommended reading for Officer cadets at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Some notable military leaders have stated the following about Sun Tzu and The Art of War:

> I always kept a copy of The Art of War on my desk.[23] – General Douglas MacArthur, 5 Star General and Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers.

> I have read The Art of War by Sun Tzu. He continues to influence both soldiers & politicians.[24] – General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, National Security Advisor, and Secretary of State.

According to some authors, the strategy of deception from The Art of War was studied and widely used by the KGB: "I will force the enemy to take our strength for weakness, and our weakness for strength, and thus will turn his strength into weakness".[25]

### Application outside the military

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Some of the book's admirers claim that it has a variety of applications in a myriad of competitive non-military endeavors across the modern world including espionage, culture, politics, business, and sports.[26][27][28][29][30]

Some business books have claimed to see metaphorical parallels from The Art of War to office politics and corporate business strategy.[31][32][33] Some Japanese companies make the book required reading for their key executives.[34] Entrepreneurs and corporate executives have turned to it for inspiration and advice on how to succeed in competitive business situations. The book has also been applied to the field of education.[35]

The Art of War has been the subject of legal books[36] and legal articles on the trial process, including negotiation tactics and trial strategy.[37][38][39][40]

The book The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene has many quotations from The Art of War.[41]

The Art of War has also been applied in sports. National Football League coach Bill Belichick, record holder of the most Super Bowl wins in history, has stated on multiple occasions his admiration for The Art of War.[42][43] Brazilian association football coach Luiz Felipe Scolari actively used The Art of War for Brazil's successful 2002 World Cup campaign. During the tournament Scolari put passages of The Art of War underneath his players' doors at night.[44][45]

Playing To Win by David Sirlin analyses applications of the ideas from The Art of War in modern esports.[46] The Art of War was released in 2014 as an e-book companion alongside the Art of War DLC for Europa Universalis IV, a PC strategy game by Paradox Development Studios, with a foreword by Thomas Johansson.

### Film and television

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The Art of War and Sun Tzu have been referenced and quoted in many movies and television shows, including in the 1987 movie Wall Street, in which Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) frequently references it, and commends his protege, Bud Fox, for being able to quote a relevant passage from memory.[47] The 20th James Bond film, Die Another Day (2002) also references The Art of War as the spiritual guide shared by Colonel Moon and his father.[48] In The Sopranos, season 3, episode 8 ("He Is Risen"), Dr. Melfi suggests to Tony Soprano that he read the book.[49]

In the Star Trek: The Next Generation first-season episode "The Last Outpost", first officer William Riker quotes The Art of War: "Fear is the true enemy, the only enemy". Captain Picard expressed pleasure that Sun Tzu was still taught at Starfleet Academy. Later in the episode, a survivor from a long-dead nonhuman empire noted common aspects between his own people's wisdom and The Art of War with regard to knowing when and when not to fight.[50]

The Art of War is a 2000 action spy film directed by Christian Duguay and starring Wesley Snipes, Michael Biehn, Anne Archer and Donald Sutherland.[51]

## Notable translations

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Running Press miniature edition of the 1994 Ralph D. Sawyer translation, printed in 2003

* Sun Tzu on the Art of War. Translated by Lionel Giles. London: Luzac and Company. 1910.
* The Art of War. Translated by Samuel B. Griffith. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1963. ISBN 978-0-19-501476-1. `{{cite book}}`: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) Part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works.
* Sun Tzu, The Art of War. Translated by Thomas Cleary. Boston: Shambhala Dragon Editions. 1988. ISBN 978-0877734529.
* The Art of Warfare. Translated by Roger Ames. Random House. 1993. ISBN 978-0-345-36239-1.
* The Art of War. Translated by John Minford. New York: Viking. 2002. ISBN 978-0-670-03156-6.
* The Art of War: Sunzi's Military Methods. Translated by Victor H. Mair. New York: Columbia University Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-231-13382-1.

## See also

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* China portal
* Philosophy portal
* Books portal

### Books

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* Arthashastra
* On War by Carl von Clausewitz
* The Art of War by Niccolò Machiavelli
* The Book of Five Rings (Miyamoto Musashi)

### Concepts

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* Military treatise
* Philosophy of war

## References

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### Citations

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1. ^ Boorman, Scott (15 February 2024). Thinking Through Sun Tzu's Art of War: Analyzing Sun Tzu's Art of War, A Manual on Strategy. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-47103-9.
2. ^ Smith (1999), p. 216.
3. ^ Giles, Lionel The Art of War by Sun Tzu – Special Edition. Special Edition Books. 2007. p. 62.
4. ^ Hlavatý, Jozef; Ližbetin, Ján (2021). "The Use of the Art of War Ideas in the Strategic Decision-making of the Company". Transportation Research Procedia. 14th International scientific conference on sustainable, modern and safe transport. 55: 1273–1280\. doi:10.1016/j.trpro.2021.07.110. ISSN 2352-1465. S2CID 238896273.
5. ^ Lewis (1999), p. 604.
6. ^ a b c d e f Gawlikowski & Loewe (1993), p. 447.
7. ^ Mair (2007), pp. 12–13.
8. ^ Mair (2007), p. 9.
9. ^ Liu An (original compiler), Xu Shen (annotator). Huainan Honglie (Annotated), "Survey Obscurities". Main text: 「夫死生同域，不可脅陵，勇武一人，為三軍雄。」; Major et al.'s (2010) translation: "One for whom death and life are the same territory, who cannot be threatened, such a single brave warrior is the hero of the Three Armies."; Siku Quanshu version. vols. 4-7, p. 96 of 160 Archived 15 April 2023 at the Wayback Machine; Annotation: 「武士也；江淮間謂士曰武。」
10. ^ Liu An (2010) The Huainanzi: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government in Early Han China. Translated and edited by John S. Major, Sarah A. Queen, Aandrew Seth Meyer, and Harold D. Roth. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. p. 215
11. ^ a b Mair (2007), p. 10.
12. ^ a b Gawlikowski & Loewe (1993), p. 448.
13. ^ a b c Gawlikowski & Loewe (1993), p. 449.
14. ^ Mark Edward Lewis (2005), quoted in Mair (2007), p. 18.
15. ^ Sunzi (2009). Shawn Conners (ed.). Sun-tzu ping fa [The art of war]. Translated by Lionel Giles (Classic ed.). El Paso, TX: El Paso Norte Press. ISBN 978-1-934255-15-5. OCLC 433665014.
16. ^ a b Griffith, Samuel B. The Illustrated Art of War. 2005. Oxford University Press. pp. 17, 141–43.
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18. ^ Interview with Dr. William Duiker, Conversation with Sonshi Archived 18 January 2024 at the Wayback Machine
19. ^ Forbes, Andrew; Henley, David (2012). The Illustrated Art of War: Sun Tzu. Chiang Mai: Cognoscenti Books. ASIN B00B91XX8U
20. ^ Army, U. S. (1985). Military History and Professional Development. U. S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: Combat Studies Institute. 85-CSI-21 85.
21. ^ "Messages". Archived from the original on 2 October 2012. Retrieved 2 June 2009.
22. ^ "Department of Military Instruction Job Opportunities | United States Military Academy West Point". westpoint.edu. Archived from the original on 12 December 2019. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
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