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96 whatever situation they are placed, nothing under heaven can withstand them. The army may be called a father and. his children.”

And Wu said:

“In marching, movements and halts must be properly adjusted, suitable occasions for rationing not missed; the strength of men and horses not exhausted. If these three things be observed, the commands of the superior can be carried out; if the commands of the superior be carried out, order is maintained. If advances and halts be without method, victualling unsuitable, horses and men tired and wearyneither unsaddled or housed it is because the orders cannot be obeyed; if the orders be set aside, there is disorder in the camp, and in battledefeat.”

Wu the Master said:

"On that depository of corpses, the battlefield, if there be certain expectation of death, there is life; if there be happy expectation of life, there is death. The good general is like unto one sitting in