"Therefore, his battle victories do not repeat, and his responding positions have no end."
- Sun Tzu This passage harkens back to the previous Book on shih, where Sun Tzu tells us that it is through proper-surprising that one creates endless variations of achieving victory (5.4). For Sun Tzu, the winning combination of concealment and surprise allows one to continuously change one's position in response to the enemy's weak points. Because every enemy is different, one's strategy always changes. Yet the principles of attack - concealment and surprise - never change.
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