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Chapter VI. WEAK POINTS AND STRONG

plans against us."]

  1. How victory may be produced for them out of the enemy’s own tactics—that is what the multitude cannot comprehend.
  1. All men can see the tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

[I.e., everybody can see superficially how a battle is won; what they cannot see is the long series of plans and combinations which has preceded the battle.]

  1. Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances.

[As Wang Hsi sagely remarks: "There is but one root-principle underlying victory, but the tactics which lead up to it are infinite in

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