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Definition & Meaning
Key Takeaway: The Five Fundamentals.
The Five Fundamentals. Measure before you move. An ancient Chinese military text traditionally attributed to Sunzi (孙子), transmitted in thirteen chapters on assessment, campaigning, attack, position, movement, terrain, command, fire attack, and intelligence. Later readers have applied the text beyond warfare, but those uses are later interpretations.
As Sun Tzu wrote in The Art of War, the classic text of Chinese strategic thought, The Five Fundamentals.
— Oriens
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Later readers have applied the text beyond warfare, but those uses are later interpretations..
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Later readers have applied the text beyond warfare, but those uses are later interpretations..
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Later readers have applied the text beyond warfare, but those uses are later interpretations..