文档介绍：Sun Tzu on the Art of War
The Oldest Military Treatise in
the World
Translated from the Chinese
By Lionel Giles, . (1910)
22 de maio de 2002
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Sumário
LAYING PLANS 5
WAGING WAR 7
ATTACK BY STRATAGEM 9
TACTICAL DISPOSITIONS 11
ENERGY 13
WEAK POINTS AND STRONG 15
MANEUVERING 19
VARIATION IN TACTICS 23
THE ARMY ON THE MARCH 25
TERRAIN 29
THE NINE SITUATIONS 33
THE ATTACK BY FIRE 39
THE USE OF SPIES 41
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LAYING PLANS
1. Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State.
2. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it
is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
3. The art of war, then, is governed by five constant factors, to be taken into
account in one’s deliberations, when seeking to determine the conditions
obtaining in the field.
4. These are: (1) The Moral Law; (2) Heaven; (3) Earth; (4) mander;
(5) Method and discipline.
5. The Moral Law causes the people to be plete accord with their ruler,
so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any
danger.
6. Heaven signifies night and day, cold and heat, times and seasons.
7. prises distances, great and small; danger and security; open
ground and narrow passes; the chances of life and death.
8. mander stands for the virtues of wisdom, sincerely, benevolence,
courage and strictness.
9. By method and discipline are to be understood the marshaling of the army
in its proper subdivisions, the graduations of rank among the officers,
the maintenance of roads by which supplies may reach the army, and the
control