Without local guides, your enemy employs the land as a weapon against you.

He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.

A leader leads by example not by force.

With regard to ground of this nature, be before the enemy in occupying the raised and sunny spots, and carefully guard your line of supplies. Then you will be able to fight with advantage.

Those skilled at making the enemy move do so by creating a situation to which he must conform; they entice him with something he is certain to take, and with lures of ostensible profit they await him in strength.

The value of time, that is of being a little ahead of your opponent, often provides greater advantage than superior numbers or greater resources.

Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.