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Know Yourself and Your Adversary. The foundation of all strategy. 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. • The foundation of all strategy

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

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