All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away.
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Thirteen terse chapters on strategy that treat war as a matter of position, timing, deception, and the reading of circumstance. Its insistence that the best victory is won before a sword is drawn has outlived every battlefield it described.