ABSTRACT
Sun Pin said: "When someone whose wisdom is inadequate commands the army, it is conceit. When someone whose courage is inadequate commands the army, it is bravado. When someone does not know the Tao nor has engaged in a sufficient number of battles commands the army, it becomes a matter of luck. The chapter also points out the importance of conforming the formation, the disposition of the force components, to the terrain's configuration. Sun-tzu said, "Configuration of terrain is an aid to the army. Analyzing the enemy, taking control of victory, estimating ravines and defiles, the distant and the near, is the Tao of the superior general. Sun-tzu strongly believed that soldiers would attain maximum fervor when confronted by imminent, apparently inescapable death, forced into an impossible situation on fatal ground: "Cast them into hopeless situations and they will be preserved; have them penetrate fatal terrain and they will live.".
