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The Art of War (c. 5th century BCE, here in Lionel Giles' 1910 translation) is the oldest surviving military treatise in the world — thirteen brief chapters on strategy, deception, terrain, and the conditions under which armies prevail or fail. Attributed to the Chinese general Sun Tzu, it has been read for more than two millennia by commanders and statesmen, and (in the centuries since) by anyone interested in the art of winning without fighting. Giles's English rendering remains the version most readers in the language have encountered.
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