This is the basic text of Sun Tzu's Art of War, extracted from Mr. Giles' English translation. The complete work, which includes the text and commentary, has been released as suntzu10.txt (or suntzu10.zip) by Project Gutenbert in Public Domain.

The Art of War contains 13 chapters. You can click on the chapter title to go to that chapter. Click Here to go to the Chinese page. Also, each chapter is linked to its corresponding Chinese text by clicking on the link at the beginning of each chapter.

1. Laying Plans	2. Waging War
3. Attack by Stratagem	4. Tactical Dispositions
5. Energy	6. Weak Points and Strong
7. Maneuvering	8. Variation in Tactics
9. The Army on the March	10. Terrain
11. The Nine Situations	12. The Attack by Fire
13. The Use of Spies