Chinese strategy explained : know yourself and the ennemy, use deception, spies, and "win with ease". Tr. Giles (en, annotated) and Amiot (fr).
Waging War
Ts`ao Kung has the note: "He who wishes to fight must first count the cost," which prepares us for the discovery that the subject of the chapter is not what we might expect from the title, but is primarily a consideration of ways and means.
The skillful soldier does not raise a second levy, neither are his supply-wagons loaded more than twice.1
Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy. Thus the army will have food enough for its needs.2
Giles II.8,9.
Ceux qui possèdent les vrais principes de l'art militaire ne s'y prennent pas à deux fois. Dès la première campagne, tout est fini ; ils ne consomment pas pendant trois années de suite des vivres inutilement. Ils trouvent le moyen de faire subsister leurs armées au dépens de l'ennemi, et épargnent à État les frais immenses qu'il est obligé de faire, lorsqu'il faut transporter bien loin toutes les provisions.
Amiot
The Art of War – Sun Zi II. 5. – Chinese off/on – Français/English
Alias Sun Tzu, Sun Wu, Sun Tse, Sunzi Bingfa, Souen Tseu, Souen Wou, 孫武.
The Book of Odes, The Analects, Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean, Three-characters book, The Book of Changes, The Way and its Power, 300 Tang Poems, The Art of War, Thirty-Six Strategies
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