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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 113 of 130 · ~154 words · public domain

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P‘o-t‘ai, a spy, 165.

Polybius, referred to, 120.

Port Arthur, siege of, 19.

Presence of mind, 66.

Punishment, 95, 97, 98.

Rabbits, not indigenous to China, 149.

Rapidity, 12, 61; the essence of war, 122.

Rewards, 15, 95, 142.

Reward and punishment, constancy in, 4.

Riches, soldiers not to acquire, 127.

River, crossing a, 129.

River warfare, 81, 82.

Roberts, Lord, night march of, 35; on Sun Tzŭ, xlii.

Rout, 105, 107.

Ruin, one of the six calamities, 105, 106.

Ruler, military commander independent of the, 109; the enlightened, 157, 159, 174.

Rules of warfare, conventional, 148.

Salt-marshes, 83.

San Kuo Chih, quoted, 69, 111; referred to, xxxv, xli, xlii. See also Wei Chih.

San Lüeh, li; quoted, 62, 158.

San Shih Êrh Lei Ching, xviii.

San Ts‘ai T‘u Hui, liii.

San-yüan, 79.

“Science of War,” quoted, 101, 130.

Scouts, 88, 89.

Screens, grass, 88.

Secrecy, 45, 131.

Secrets, divulged by a spy, 170.

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