# Operational deception

- Id: `operational_deception`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/operational-deception/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `074259dcd5755239c6ddf022e621a933cf5981b2e964d342278b27ebb1a93147`

## Summary

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

## Overview

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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:sunzi.sunzi_bingfa:1"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "詭道",
    "warfare is based on deception",
    "guerre est l’art de tromper"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 1,
    "passages": 13,
    "thinkers": 1,
    "traditions": 1
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "chinese-thought",
        "name": "Early Chinese thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/early-chinese-thought/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "sunzi.sunzi_bingfa",
        "title": "Sunzi Bingfa, The Art of War",
        "author": "Sun Tzu",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/sunzi/art-of-war/"
    }
]
```