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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 101 of 130 · ~145 words · public domain

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Disaffection, signs of, 95.

Discipline, 2, 3, 4, 98, 111.

Disorder, seeming, 38.

Disorganisation, 105, 107.

Dispersive ground, 114, 118, 135.

Disposition of troops, 26.

Dispositions, concealment of, 51, 52; knowledge of the enemy’s, 163.

Dissimulation, 61.

Dividing the enemy, 47.

Divination, to be prohibited, 126.

“Divine manipulation of the threads,” 164.

Door, left open by the enemy, 147.

Doorkeepers, 171.

Drums, 34, 64, 65.

Dust, sign of the enemy, 89.

Earth, as opposed to Heaven, 2, 4, 27, 28, 113; six principles connected with, 104.

Economy, false, 162.

Energy, 38, 39, 41; concentration of, 124.

Entangling ground, 100, 102.

Enterprise, the spirit of, 157.

Enticing the enemy, 102.

Êrh-chu Chao, 138.

Êrh Ya, quoted, 94.

Excellence, supreme, 17; the acme of, 28.

Expenditure on war, 9, 10, 160.

Fabius Cunctator, 11, 120.

Facile ground, 115, 118, 135, 136.

Fan Chü’s use of spies, 166.

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