Operational deception

In the received Sunzi, deception includes making capable forces seem unable, active forces seem inactive, and nearby forces seem far away.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 13 passages across 1 works, including Sunzi Bingfa, The Art of War. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: 詭道, warfare is based on deception, guerre est l’art de tromper