1 Analysis

2 Going to War

3 Planning an Attack

4 Positioning

5 Momentum

6 Weakness and Strength

7 Armed Conflict

8 Adaptability

9 Armed March

10 Field Position

11 Types of Terrain

12 Attacking with Fire

13 Using Spies

You can attack a place without planning to do so.
You can leave a place without giving away your plan.

17 You will find a place where you can win.
You cannot first signal your intentions.

5 Manage to avoid battle until your organization can count on certain victory.

You must calculate many advantages.
Before you go to battle, your organization's analysis may indicate that you might not win.
You can count few advantages.
Many advantages add up to victory.
Few advantages add up to defeat.
How can you know your advantages without analyzing them?
We can see where we are by means of our observations.
We can foresee our victory or defeat by planning.

You will know exactly what to do
when you master strategy. Don’t be
mislead when Sun Tzu’s stanzas
seem like vague aphorisms. These
methods make situations more tangible
and more easily compared.

This verse, for example, describes a
battlefield simulation using “tokens”
comparing competitive resources.
“Adding up” was a matter of counting
winning and losing tokens.

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