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The Laws of War, a treatise by the famous Chinese strategist and military theorist of the 4th-3rd centuries BC. Sun Tzu, whom some researchers identify with the legendary Sun Tzu, outlines the most important rules of military strategy, including: attacking what the enemy values most, using the enemy's prejudices and emotions, resorting to disinformation and deceptive manoeuvres, being able to sacrifice part of one's forces to gain something more valuable, etc, which were successfully applied during the internecine wars between the Chinese fiefdoms during the Warring States period (475-221 BC)
The article focuses on the principles and shortcomings of troop management, ways of forming them on the ground, stages of military operations, maintaining morale among soldiers, etc. Importantly, as a military advisor to the ruler of the Qi kingdom, Sun Bin does not justify wars in themselves, but considers them a means of maintaining order and prosperity in the world, thus justifying the principles of martial art in traditional Chinese moral categories.