know yourself and your adversary art of war meaning

Key Takeaway: Know Yourself and Your Adversary.

Know Yourself and Your Adversary. The foundation of all strategy. Sunzi is the traditional figure associated with the ancient Chinese military text known as the Art of War (孙子兵法). Later biographical traditions, especially Sima Qian's Shiji, identify him with Sun Wu and connect him with the state of Wu; the historical details and the relationship between the person and the received thirteen-chapter text remain uncertain. Later readers have applied the text beyond warfare, but those uses belong to reception history.

As Sun Tzu wrote in The Art of War, the classic text of Chinese strategic thought, Know Yourself and Your Adversary.

— Oriens

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