This book is a famous ancient Chinese treatise on military policy. Until now, no one has yet managed to formulate the principles of warfare as simply and aphoristically as the man known under the pseudonym Sun Tzu. His work is the main text of the “school of military philosophy”, which had a great influence on the entire military art of the East. It teaches the development of strategy, tactics, diplomacy, self-organization, the ability to concentrate on a specific task and successfully solve it, negotiate at any level, shows how You can outwit your opponent and bring the job you started to a victorious end. Marshal Carl Gustav Mannerheim and General Axel Airo read this book. It has been translated into many languages and is studied by people of different professions and different statuses. The treatise was published in the classic translation of the orientalist N. Conrad with his deep comments, which constitute a separate fascinating work.