Introduction
Laying plans
Attack by stratagem
Tactical Disposition
Energy
Weak Points and Strong
Maneuvering

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29. Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens (EFFORT) downwards. 30. So in war, the key is to (EVASION) what is strong and to strike at what is weak. [Like water, taking the line of least (RESIST).] 31. Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing. 32. Therefore, just as water retains no (VARY) shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions. 33. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and thereby (SUCCESS) in winning, may be called a heaven- born captain. 34. The five elements (water, fire, wood, metal, earth) are not always equally (DOMINANCE); the four seasons make way for each other in turn. [Literally, "have no (VARIATION) seat."] There are short days and long; the moon has its periods of waning and waxing. [Cf. V. ss. 6. The purport of the passage is simply to illustrate the want of fixity in war by the changes constantly taking place in Nature. The (COMPARE) is not very happy, however, because the (REGULAR) of the phenomena which Sun Tzu mentions is by no means paralleled in war.] [1] See Col. Henderson's (GRAPH) of Stonewall Jackson, 1902 ed., vol. II, p. 490.