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Sun Tzu (also rendered as Sun Zi) was a Chinese general, military strategist, writer, and philosopher who lived in the Eastern Zhou period of ancient China.

Sun Tzu is traditionally credited as the author of The Art of War, a widely influential work of military strategy that has affected both Western and East Asian philosophy and military thinking.

Aside from his legacy as the author of The Art of War, Sun Tzu is revered in Chinese and East Asian culture as a legendary historical and military figure.

His birth name was Sun Wu, and he was known outside of his family by his courtesy name Changqing.

The name Sun Tzu by which he is best known in the Western World is an honorific which means "Master Sun".

The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Spring and Autumn period.

The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu ("Master Sun", also spelled Sunzi), is composed of 13 chapters.

Each one is devoted to a distinct aspect of warfare and how that applies to military strategy and tactics.

For almost 1,500 years it was the lead text in an anthology that would be formalised as the Seven Military Classics by Emperor Shenzong of Song in 1080.

The Art of War remains the most influential strategy text in East Asian warfare.

It has a profound influence on both Eastern and Western military thinking, business tactics, legal strategy and beyond.

A battle is a combat in warfare between two or more armed forces, or combatants.

A war usually consists of multiple battles.

Battles generally are well defined in duration, area, and force commitment.

A battle with only limited engagement between the forces and without decisive results is sometimes called a skirmish.

A military or an armed force is a professional organization formally authorized by a sovereign state to use lethal or deadly force and weapons to support the interests of the state.

It typically consists of branches such as an Army, Navy, Air Force, and in certain countries the Marines and Coast Guard.

The task of the military is usually defined as defence of the state, and its citizens, and the prosecution of war against another state.

The military may also have additional sanctioned and non-sanctioned functions within a society, including, the promotion of a political agenda, protecting corporate economic interests, internal population control, construction, emergency services, social ceremonies, and guarding important areas.

The military may also function as a discrete subculture within a larger civil society, through the development of separate infrastructures, which may include housing, schools, utilities, logistics, health and medical, law, food production, finance and banking.