If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are.

Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends hit him where he does not expect you.

When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress to act. And even though you have wise counsellors, none will be able to lay good plans for the future. Thus, while we have heard of blundering swiftness in war, we have not yet seen a clever operation that was prolonged.

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

Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve.

Who can determine where one ends and the other begins?

Correct your mistake as soon as you have found it.