Communications, line of, 101, 119.
Compactness, 61.
Confucius, and the art of war, xlvi, xlvii, xlviii; contemporary with
Sun Tzŭ, xxx; violates extorted oath, xlix.
Constellations, 153.
Contentious ground, 115, 118, 136.
Contraction and expansion, 134.
Conventional canons of warfare, 148.
Co-operation, 129.
Council-chamber, sternness in the, 146.
Country, natural features of, 60.
Courage, one standard of, 130.
Courant’s “Catalogue des Livres Chinois,” lii.
Cowardice, 78.
Critical ground, 134, 135.
Cromwell’s use of spies, 164.
Cross-divisions, 100.
Cunning, 145.
Danger, bracing effect of, 139, 145.
Dangerously isolated ground, 72.
Deception, war based on, 6, 132.
Decision, 37, 38.
Deductive calculation, 163.
Defence, skill in, 27.
Deliberation, 63.
Demosthenes, the Athenian general, 118.
Desertion, 134, 136.
Desperado, running amok, 125.
Desperate foe, not to be pressed, 69, 94.
Desperate ground, 72, 114, 117, 120, 125, 126, 135, 138, 143.
Deviation, artifice of, 57, 63.
Difficult ground, 71, 117, 120, 137.
Disaffection, signs of, 95.
Discipline, 2, 3, 4, 98, 111.
Disorder, seeming, 38.
Disorganisation, 105, 107.
Dispersive ground, 114, 118, 135.
Disposition of troops, 26.
Dispositions, concealment of, 51, 52; knowledge of the enemy’s, 163.
Dissimulation, 61.
Dividing the enemy, 47.
Divination, to be prohibited, 126.
“Divine manipulation of the threads,” 164.
Door, left open by the enemy, 147.
Doorkeepers, 171.
Drums, 34, 64, 65.
Dust, sign of the enemy, 89.
Earth, as opposed to Heaven, 2, 4, 27, 28, 113; six principles connected
with, 104.
Economy, false, 162.
Energy, 38, 39, 41; concentration of, 124.
Entangling ground, 100, 102.
Enterprise, the spirit of, 157.
Enticing the enemy, 102.
Êrh-chu Chao, 138.
_Êrh Ya_, quoted, 94.
Excellence, supreme, 17; the acme of, 28.
Expenditure on war, 9, 10, 160.
Fabius Cunctator, 11, 120.
Facile ground, 115, 118, 135, 136.
Fan Chü’s use of spies, 166.
Fei River, battle of the, 25.
Fêng Hou, lii, 84.
Fêng I, a student of Sun Tzŭ, xlii.
Fire, as an aid to the attack, 156; dropping, 151, 152; five ways of
attacking with, 150; material for, 152; proper seasons for attacking
with, 152, 153; to be started on the windward side, 155.
Five advantages, the, 72, 74, 75.
Five cardinal tastes, 36.
Five cardinal virtues, 3.
Five classes of State ceremonial, xlviii.
Five dangerous faults, 77.