Thirty Six Stratagems

More than a thousand years ago, the Chinese developed and formulated many of the strategies that are still used today. This is because they did not connect them to specific techniques, but rather to martial principles that are appropriate in every age. The strategies are beneficial for understanding reality and analyzing it; thus, they are used in wars, spying, politics, economics, and so forth. Even better, they are beneficial for understanding the strategies that the West studies and uses to fight.