The Five Essentials for Victory

The art of war is written in short pithy numbered aphorisms that read almost like an outline. The general and the particular are all mixed together along with some quasi religious or philosophical insertions. It reads very quickly. Here's chapter one. One laying plans. Two, it is a matter of life and death,. hence it is the subject of inquiry which cannot be neglected. Three, the moral law causes people to follow their ruler so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger. Seven, heaven signifies day and heat, times when we should not fight at all. And finally, there are five essentials for victory, which are he will win