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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Art of War by Sun Tzu: doubts." Vacillation and fussiness are the surest means of
sapping the confidence of an army.]
[1] "Aids to Scouting," p. 26.
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X. TERRAIN
[Only about a third of the chapter, comprising ss. ss. 1-13,
deals with "terrain," the subject being more fully treated in ch.
XI. The "six calamities" are discussed in SS. 14-20, and the
rest of the chapter is again a mere string of desultory remarks,
though not less interesting, perhaps, on that account.]
1. Sun Tzu said: We may distinguish six kinds of terrain,
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