Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does
not allow the enemy’s will to be imposed on him.
The next paragraph makes it clear that 致 does not merely mean, as
Tu Mu says, 令敵來就我 “to make the enemy approach me,” but rather
to make him go in any direction I please. It is thus practically
synonymous with 制. Cf. Tu Mu’s own note on V. § 19. One mark of a
great soldier is that he fights on his own terms or fights not at
all.[170]