What are the four main principles of strategy put forward in Sun Tzu's Strategies and Attacks (谋攻篇)

Sun Tzu's principles of strategy or decision-making are:

1. Prophecy. Almost every article deals with knowing and foreknowledge. Know yourself, know your enemy, know heaven and earth, know your generals, and so on.

2. Victory. Victory is divided into total victory and favorable.

Total victory means, without hands, to win the victory, is the original intention of Sun Tzu; if you have to do it, the pursuit of quick victory.

Beneficial means that all decisions and actions are made to benefit oneself. "Do not move without advantage, do not use without gain, and do not fight without danger." 'Move with advantage, change with division'.

3. Calculation. "Five Things and Seven Calculations" Make strategic decisions by analyzing and comparing the five things and seven calculations.

4, Gui Dao. Use the 12 methods of the tricky way as the basic principle of tactical use.

Expanded Information:

. p>The Chapter of Strategies and Attacks is the third chapter of Sun Tzu's The Art of War, which highly summarizes the ancient Chinese way of using military force and is of great value for learning and practice. It is mainly about attacking a city with wisdom, i.e. not using force exclusively, but using various means to make the defending enemy surrender. It focuses on the idea and strategic principle of "fighting with the whole world", i.e., striving for "total victory".

Sun Tzu's The Art of War, revered by later generations of military strategists, is regarded as the "holy book of military science" and is placed at the top of the "Seven Books of Martial Arts", which has been translated into English, French, German, and Japanese, and has become the most famous international book on military science. Also known as "Sun Wu Art of War", "Wu Sun Tzu Art of War", "Sun Tzu Book of War", "Sun Wu Book of War" and so on, its content is profound, the idea of profound and rich support, logic is meticulous and rigorous.

1958 Jinxia Strait, good attackers refined in defense, attack is the opportunity to defend; good defender can also attack, defend is the policy of attack. Stabbing and sheltering strike defense, entanglement and stirring, all in one and two, nine places and nine days, the gun's muzzle ejects the talent of the military, the tactics of traditional artillery, performed to the fullest extent, the use of pure fire.

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