The Art of War

Chapters 1-3

Reading Check

1. Deception (Chapter 1)

2. Planning (Chapter 1)

3. 1,000 ounces of silver (Chapter 2)

4. Whole and undamaged (Chapter 3)

5. Laying siege (Chapter 3)

Short Answer

1. Sun Tzu describes the five factors that dictate the outcome of war as good governance, weather and season, the quality of the army, the military leader, and geography. (Chapter 1)

2. Sun Tzu describes deception as presenting the army as weak when it is strong and as unprepared when it is prepared. (Chapter 1)

3. He advises military leadership to feed and provide weapons for their military using resources from the country that is invaded. (Chapter 2)

4. Leaders can undermine the chances of their army by failing to see the entire battlefield, by failing to see the individual strengths of officers, and by ruling the army as if it were a state. (Chapter 3)

Chapters 4-8

Reading Check

1. Weaknesses (Chapter 4)

2. Directly and indirectly (Chapter 5)

3. In the evening (Chapter 7)

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