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With regard to narrow passes, if you can occupy them first, let them be strongly garrisoned and await the advent of the enemy.

Sun Tzu
Art, War, Enemy
Lionel Giles', Sun Tzu (1910). “Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers”, p.28, SJ Creations Tokyo
With regard to narrow passes, if you can occupy them first, let them be strongly garrisoned and await the advent of the enemy.