Sun Tzu

If an enemy has alliances, the problem is grave and the enemy’s position strong; if he has no alliances, the problem is minor and the enemy’s position weak.

Sun Tzu

If I am able to determine the enemy’s dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own, then I can concentrate and he must divide.

Sun Tzu

If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue.

Sun Tzu

If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.

Sun Tzu

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

Sun Tzu

If quick, I survive. If not quick, I am lost. This is death.

Sun Tzu

If the enemy has occupied them before you, do not follow him, but retreat and try to entice him away.

Sun Tzu

If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely traced out on the ground. All we need to do is to throw something odd and unaccountable in his way.

Sun Tzu

If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.

Sun Tzu

If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep ditch. All we need do is attack some other place that he will be obliged to relieve.

Sun Tzu