Using analogies involving musical notes, tastes, and primary colors, its author demonstrates the wide range of possible actions based on a limited set of simple techniques, and emphasizes the number five, which also comprises the number of ways to use fire and the different types of spies.
This book's ninth chapter explains the significance of the motion of dust clouds and applies an ominous weight to bird migrations and animal stampedes. Its eleventh chapter uses such adjectives as "dispersive," "facile," and "contentious" to categorize the "Nine Situations" of its title. Using analogies involving musical notes, tastes, and primary colors, its author demonstrates the wide range of possible actions based on a limited set of simple techniques, and emphasizes the number five, which also comprises the number of ways to use fire and the different types of spies. Jean-Joseph Amiot is credited with popularizing this work, which features chapters entitled "Terrain" and "Attack by Strategem," among a European audience. FTP, identify this treatise on military tactics written by Sun-Tzu.
This book's ninth chapter explains the significance of the motion of dust clouds and applies an ominous weight to bird migrations and animal stampedes.
The {Art of War} or {Ping Fa}