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Sun Tzŭ on the Art of War: the Oldest Military Treatise in the World · active 6th century B.C. Sunzi — chapter 100 of 130 · ~124 words · public domain

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Constellations, 153.

Contentious ground, 115, 118, 136.

Contraction and expansion, 134.

Conventional canons of warfare, 148.

Co-operation, 129.

Council-chamber, sternness in the, 146.

Country, natural features of, 60.

Courage, one standard of, 130.

Courant’s “Catalogue des Livres Chinois,” lii.

Cowardice, 78.

Critical ground, 134, 135.

Cromwell’s use of spies, 164.

Cross-divisions, 100.

Cunning, 145.

Danger, bracing effect of, 139, 145.

Dangerously isolated ground, 72.

Deception, war based on, 6, 132.

Decision, 37, 38.

Deductive calculation, 163.

Defence, skill in, 27.

Deliberation, 63.

Demosthenes, the Athenian general, 118.

Desertion, 134, 136.

Desperado, running amok, 125.

Desperate foe, not to be pressed, 69, 94.

Desperate ground, 72, 114, 117, 120, 125, 126, 135, 138, 143.

Deviation, artifice of, 57, 63.

Difficult ground, 71, 117, 120, 137.

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