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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Art of War by Sun Tzu: great vigilance and circumspection.
[Ts`ao Kung says a maneuver of this sort may be only a ruse
to gain time for an unexpected flank attack or the laying of an
ambush.]
40. If our troops are no more in number than the enemy,
that is amply sufficient; it only means that no direct attack can
be made.
[Literally, "no martial advance." That is to say, CHENG
tactics and frontal attacks must be eschewed, and stratagem
resorted to instead.]
What we can do is simply to concentrate all our available
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