It is more important to outhink your enemy, than to outfight him

Ground which can be freely traversed by both sides is called accessible.

In war, practice dissimulation and you will succeed.

The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without having to fight them.

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

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.