These six are the principles connected with Earth. 535 The general who has attained a responsible post must be careful to study them. 536

Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 537 but from faults for which the general is responsible. These are: (1) Flight; (2) insubordination; (3) collapse; (4) ruin; (5) disorganization; (6) rout. 538

Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of the former. 539