Choose an entrance
This page is a signpost, not the product. The thirteen chapters exist so you start fewer wasteful fights.
Who is Sun Tzu
Person, period, what can be confirmed, and what remains uncertain.
Read the thirteen chapters
The full map. Each chapter is one judgment, not a text dump.
Open one chapter
- 1. Stay out · Laying Plans
- 2. Stop date · Waging War
- 3. Without fighting · Attack by Stratagem
- 4. Hard to defeat · Tactical Dispositions
- 5. Spend fewer · Energy
- 6. Empty place · Weak Points and Strong
- 7. Preserve · Maneuvering
- 8. Refuse · Variation in Tactics
- 9. Read the signals · The Army on the March
- 10. Ground does not fit · Terrain
- 11. Dispersive ground · The Nine Situations
- 12. Keep a way out · The Attack by Fire
- 13. Once you know · The Use of Spies
Modern use
Cases and methods — not a query dump.