In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them; 332 conceal your dispositions, and you will be safe from the prying of the subtlest spies, from the machinations of the wisest brains. 333

How victory may be produced for them out of the enemy’s own tactics⁠—that is what the multitude cannot comprehend. 334

All men can see the tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved. 335

Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances. 336