9
If you march fifty LI in order to outmaneuver the enemy, you will lose the leader of your first division, and only half your force will reach the goal.
10
If you march thirty LI with the same object, two-thirds of your army will arrive.
11
We may take it then that an army without its baggage train is lost; without provisions it is lost; without bases of supply it is lost.
12
We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors.
13
We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country—its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.
14
We shall be unable to turn natural advantage to account unless we make use of local guides.
15
In war, practice dissimulation, and you will succeed.