---
type: CKG Bundle
title: The Art of War
description: Sun Tzu's classic — 13 chapters mapped as a knowledge graph (five factors, deception, "win without fighting").
resource: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/132
tags: [classics, strategy, sun-tzu, public-domain]
timestamp: 2026-06-18T00:00:00Z
ckg:
  id: art-of-war
  version: 1.0.0
  source: "Sun Tzu, The Art of War (Giles translation, public domain)"
---
# The Art of War — CKG

```csv
ConceptID,ConceptLabel,Dependencies,TaxonomyID
1,The Art of War (Sun Tzu),,DOC
2,Thirteen chapters,1,STRUCT
3,Laying Plans,2,CH
4,Five Factors (Moral law / Heaven / Earth / Commander / Method),3,CONCEPT
5,Waging War,2,CH
6,Attack by Stratagem,2,CH
7,"Know yourself and your enemy",6,CONCEPT
8,Tactical Dispositions,2,CH
9,Energy (shih),2,CONCEPT
10,Weak & Strong Points,2,CONCEPT
11,Maneuvering,2,CH
12,Deception,6,CONCEPT
13,Win without fighting,6,CONCEPT
14,Use of Spies,2,CH
```

## Edges
1→2 · 2→3 · 3→4 · 2→5 · 2→6 · 6→7 · 2→8 · 8→9 · 8→10 · 2→11 · 6→12 · 6→13 · 2→14 · 13→7

> A 2,500-year-old classic as a CKG — chapters, core concepts, and their dependencies, traversable. Public domain (Project Gutenberg). Proof a CKG works on any structured text. *Built by Graphify.md.*