Abbasid Caliphate
accessible terrain
advantage; struggle of armies and; terrain and
Ai, Duke
Aineias the Tactician; works of
Altai (East Central Asia)
Amano Shizuo
Ames, Roger T.
Amiot, John Joseph Marie
Analects. See Original Analects
ant approach
army: guest; hierarchy of organizational levels; hobbling; marching of; size of; struggle of; triple
Army administration (Jun zheng)
Arthaśāstra (Treatise on material well-being) (Kauṭilya)
Art of War (Machiavelli)
Art of War, The. See Sun Zi bingfa
Asano Yuichi
assessment (quan); five factors; meanings of quan
Athena
Axial Age
Ba’al
bamboo-strip manuscripts. See Guodian bamboo-strip manuscripts; Yinque Shan bamboo strip manuscripts
Ban Gu
bellows
bian (variation, transformation)
Bible
bin (removal of the kneecap)
bing (soldiers, armed forces)
bingfa (soldierly methods)
“Biography of Zhao Chongguo”
Black Sea region
Bodhidharma
branching terrain
Bronze Revolution
Brooks, A. Takeo
Brooks, E. Bruce
bug out (phrase)
businesspeople
Butsu Mokei (Ogyū Sorai)
Calthrop, Everard Ferguson
Candragupta Maurya
Cao Cao (Wei Wu); commentaries by; incendiary attacks and
Cao Gui (Cao Mo)
Cao Ren
cavalry
center of gravity (Schwerpunkt)
chariots
Chen Hao
Chen Zhensun
Chiang Kai-shek
Chinese Bronze Age Weapons (Loehr)
Chu (state)
circuitousness
cities, defense of
Classic of Documents
Clausewitz, Carl von; center of gravity; comparison with Sun Zi; fighting at center of warfare; intelligence, view of; soldierly method
collapse, trope of
commentarial tradition
comparing
condottieri
configuration (shi)
Confucianism
Confucius
conjunctions. See illiative conjunctions
constancy
contested terrain
contingencies
controlling change
conventional and unconventional tactics
costs of war
counting
crossbow
Cross, Frank
crossroads
dao. See tao/dao
Dao de jing. See Tao te ching
Dao zhe (Robber Footpad)
de. See te/de
deception (gui); espionage and; management of troops and; struggle of armies and; in Sun Bin history; terrain and; war as
defensive walls
defensive warfare
desperate terrain
di (match)
di (terrain)
differential strategist
diplomacy
dispersed terrain
distant terrain
division and enumeration
doughty
Du Huan
Du Mu
Du You
dynasties
East Asian Heartland (EAH)
easy terrain
Eighth Army (U.S.)
emotions
emptiness and solidity
encumbered terrain
Epitome rei militaris (Flavius Vegetius Renatus)
escalation
espionage and intelligence, li; types of spies
estimating
European translation
Fairbank, John K.
fa (law, method, model)
fan (in general, commonly)
feudal lords; knowledge of
five phases
flags and banners
Flavius Vegetius Renatus
flexibility
force (li)
forces
foreknowledge of victory
form (xing)
formation
formulaic expressions
Four Emperors
Frontinus
Gao Xianzhi
gauging
general (jiang/jiangjun); characteristics of; circuitousness required; five fatal flaws in; jiang/jiangjun; types of forces and; understanding of assessment; understanding of war
Genghis Khan
genre
geophones
German philosophers
gongs and drums
Go Seonji (Gao Xianzhi)
gradualist military strategy
Great Wall
Greco-Roman military writing
Griffith, Samuel B.
gu (therefore), passim
Guan Zi (Master Guan)
guest army
gui. See deception
Guodian bamboo-strip manuscripts
Han (state)
Han Fei Zi
Han Fei Zi (Master Han Fei)
hanging terrain
Han manuscripts
Han period
Han shu (History of the Han)
hegemon (ba) / hegemon king (bawang)
Helu (Helü) of Wu, King
Heng, Mt.
He Yanxi
hobbling the army
holy wars
Howard, Michael
Huai Nan Zi (Master Huai Nan)
Huang Gai
Hui, King
Hui of Wei, King
Hundred Schools
hydraulic attacks
Iliad (Homer)
illative conjunctions
Imperial Guard
inaccessible terrain
incendiary attack
integral strategist
intelligence. See espionage and intelligence
intersecting terrain
invincibility
Iron Revolution
jì (count, calculate)
jī (pivot)
Jia Lin
jiang/jiangjun. See general
Jin (state)
Jingxing ji (Notes on places passed through) (Du Huan)
Ji Tianbao
Jun zheng (Army administration)
Jun zhi (Treatise on the army)
Kangle, R. P.
Kautţilya
Keegan, John
Kierman, Frank A., Jr.
king
knowledge of enemy
Kong Shuliang
Korea
kudoimos (confusion)
Kunuri, battle of
Lau, D.C.
leadership
Le’an
Legalist ideas
Lewis, Mark Edward
li. See force
lì (advantage)
lǐ; (measure of length)
Liang (state)
liao
Li ji (Records of ritual)
Linwu Jun
Li Quan
Liu Bei
Liu Xiang
Liu Xin
Liu Xun
local guides
Loehr, Max
Lu, chronicles of
Lu (state)
Lü Buwei
lunar lodges
Lü shi chunqiu (Spring and Autumn annals of Mr. Lü)
Lü Ya (Jiang Ziya, Jiang Tai Gong)
Machiavelli, Niccolò
Mair, Victor
Maling, battle of
Manchus
Manchu translation
manipulation of enemy
Mao Zedong
Maspero, Henri
“Master Sun.” See Sun Zi
Master Sun’s military methods. See Sun Zi bingfa
materiel
measurement metaphors
measuring
Mei Yaochen
Meng shi
ming
Modern Standard Mandarin (MSM)
mou (stratagem). See also jì
Mo Zi
Mo Zi (Master Mo)
Murayama Yoshihiro
mutilation
“Nan yan” (Speaking with difficulty)
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleonic Wars
narrow terrain
nationalism
Nazi High Command
Ningzong, Emperor
noble warrior-leaders
nonmaterial cultural commodities
Odyssey (Homer)
On War (Vom Kriege) (Clausewitz)
operational plan
oral transmission
order, disruption of
Original Analects, The: Sayings of Confucius and His Successors (Brooks and Brooks)
Pang Juan
Paret, Peter
Peloponnesian War
people
People’s Republic of China
Petersen, Jens Østergård
Philistines
pillaging
pinyin
planning
poliorcetics
political aspects of war
Polyaenus
positioning; manipulation of enemy; marching of army and; outlet blocked. See also xing
precarious terrain
preparedness
pronunciation
psychological warfare
qí (odd, strange). See zheng
qì (material energy)
Qi (state)
Qin dynasty
Qing dynasty
Qin (state)
Qi Sun Zi (Sun Zi of the state of Qi)
qizheng
quan. See assessment
Rangju, Marshal
Rapid Dominance
reciprocal actions
recruitment
Red Cliff, Battle of
retreat
Robber Footpad (Dao zhe)
ruler; disobeying; lack of understanding; moral example of
Scytho-Siberian sites
Second Division (U.S.)
Shang dynasty
Shang Sunjia Zhai manuscripts
Shaolin Monastery
Shen
Shenzong, Emperor
shi. See configuration
shi gu (for this reason)
Shi ji (The Grand Scribe’s Records) (Sima Qian); biography of Sun Bin; pseudo-biography of Sun Wu; Sima fa mentioned in
Shiyi jia zhu Sun Zi (Sun Zi with notes by eleven commentators)
“Shou dao” (Guarding the way)
Shuairan
siegecraft
signaling
Sima fa (Methods of the marshal) (Marshal Rangju)
Sima Qian; pseudo-biography of Sun Wu
soldierly methods (bingfa). See also troops
soldiers (bing). See also troops
Solon of Athens
speed in military operations
spies, types of
spoils of war
Spring and Autumn period; Sun Wu’s historicity andn.
stratagem (mou)
Strategemata (Frontinus)
Strategemata (Polyaenus)
subordinates, configuration and
Sun Bin; biography of; deception in history of; given name; historicity of; two traditions of
Sun Bin bingfa (Sun Bin’s military methods); cavalry in; crossbow in; interdependence with Sun Zi bingfa; title of
Sun Bin: The Art of Warfare (Lau and Ames)
Sun Bin / Wú Qi dyad
Sun Quan
Sun Wu, li; historicity of; palace ladies of King Helu tale; pseudo-biography of. See also Sun Zi
Sun Wú
Sun Wǔ
Sun Wu bingfa
Sun Zi bingfa (Master Sun’s military methods / The Art of War); as accretional text; alliances in; anachronisms in; assessment / judgment (quan); authorship; characters in; commentarial tradition; compilatory nature of; dating of; editions; Eurasian parallels; formulaic expressions in; fragmentary texts; historical background; history of book; interdependence with Sun Bin bingfa; Japanese translations; lengths of chapters; limitations of; major contributions of; Manchu translation; received text; Song edition; stylistics and statistics; Tangut translation; Taoist editions; Taoistic aspects; title; translations; woodblock printed editions; world reception of. See also Yinque Shan bamboo-strip manuscripts
Sun Zi (Master Sun, Sun Wú, Sun Wǔ, Wú Zi); attributions to; biography of; as collective personality; comparison with Clausewitz; method, summary of; victory without fighting
Sun (Zi) / Wú (Qi) dyad
Sun Zi yishuo (Gleanings from the Sun Zi)
Sun Zi zhujie (Commentaries on the Sun Zi)
superstition
surnames
surrounded terrain
Tactics (Aineias)
Taibo yin jing (Scripture of Venusian yin)
Taizong (Li Shimin)
Talas River, Battle of
Tang period
Tang sources
Tangut translation
tao/dao (The Way)
Taoist canon
Tao te ching (Dao de jing); Guodian bamboo-strip manuscripts; title of
te/de (virtue)
telegraphic style
temple computations
terms
terrain; deception and; detrimental forms of; nine varieties of; types of
Three Jin
Three Kingdoms period
Tian (Heaven)
Tian Dan
tianxia (heaven, empire)
Tigay, Jeffrey
timing
Tongdian (Comprehensive institutions) (Du You)
transformation (bian)
translation
triple army
troops: deception used to control; enemy, treatment of; treatment of
tunneling
unfavorable terrain
universalizing phrases
vinegar
virtūs (te/de)
Wang Xi
war: in Clausewitz’s era; costs of; as deception; as last resort; means; methods; philosophical framework of; planning for attack; as political instrument; protracted; psychological warfare; in Sun Zi’s China; Taoistic approach to; transformation of; Western pattern of
war of attrition
Warring States period, li; Iron Revolution; new military features; treatment of troops; works of. See also individual works
wasted opportunities
Waterloo, Battle of
water metaphor
Way, The (tao/dao)
weapons; bronze; crossbow; iron; during Warring States period
Wei (Liang)
Wei (state)
Wei Liao Zi
Wei Lie, King
Wei of Qi
Wei Wu. See Cao Caoa
well-sweep
wen (civil culture)
Wen Di
Wenwu (Cultural relics)
Whitehead, David
Wilderness of Mu, battle of
World War II
writing
wu (martial culture)
Wu (state)
Wu, King
Wu Di “Wu du” (five vermin)
Wu jing qi shu (Seven military classics)
Wuling of Zhao, King
Wu Qi
Wú Qi
Wú Sun Zi bingfa
wuwei (nonaction)
Wú Zi
Wu Zi bingfa (Master Wu’s military methods) (Wú Qi)
Wu Zixu (Wu Yuan, Wu Yu)
Xi, Duke
Xia Dynasty
xiang (physiognomy)
xing (form, shape, position). See also positioning
Xin Tang shu (New history of the Tang Dynasty)
Xi Xia
Xixue ji yan (Recorded remarks on practice in learning) (Ye Shi)
xu (empty, void)
Xuan, Duke
Xuan Di
xun (flee)
Xun Qing
Xun Wǔ
Xun Zi (Sun Qingzi, Kuang, Xun Qing)
Xun Zi
Yahweh
Yamai Yū
Yan (state)
Yan Shigu
Yellow Emperor
Ye Shi
Yi jing (Classic of Change)
Yin Dynasty
Yinque Shan bamboo-strip manuscripts
“Yiwen zhi” (Treatise on literature)
Yi Zhi (Yi Yin)
yong bing (wage war)
Yuanhe xingzuan (Compilation of surnames from the primal accord reign period) (Lin Bao)
Yuan Shao
Yue (state)
“Zaixiang shixi biao” (Genealogical chart of the grand councilors)
zhan (battle)
Zhang Yu
Zhao (state)
zheng (conventional warfare)
Zheng Youxian
Zhi zhai shulu jieti (Explanation of titles in the studio of straightness) (Chen Zhensun)
zhong (host, crowd)
Zhou dynasty
Zhou Yu
Zhuang Zi
Zhuan Zhu
Zuo zhuan (Chronicle of Zuo)
zu (troops)