Art of War

Famous Agatean Empire treatise concerning the appropriate way to conduct and evaluate war. It consists of at least Five Rules and Nine Principles, the first of which is "Know the enemy, and know yourself." Author unknown, but possibly one of the following:

• One Tzu Sung
• Three Sun Sung
• some unsung genius

Annotation

The allusion is possibly to the ancient Chinese treatise on warfare, The Thirty-Six Principles. These are summarized [here]