Sun Tzu’s The Art of War

The Nine Situations

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Sun Tzu said: The art of war recognizes nine varieties of ground:

  1.  Dispersive ground;
  2.  Facile ground;
  3.  Contentious ground;
  4.  Open ground;
  5.  Ground of intersecting highways;
  6.  Serious ground;
  7.  Difficult ground;
  8.  Hemmed-in ground;
  9.  Desperate ground.
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