“势”指军事实力的运用和由此形成的战争态势。本篇与上篇(《形篇》)相互呼应．构成一个单元。孙子在本篇中主张将领应在已有军事实力的基础上,充分发挥主观能动性,通过高超的指挥艺术,创造和运用有利态势,夺取战争的胜利。提出了要掌握好“分数”、“形名”、“奇正”、“虚实”等环节,处理好“势”和“节”、“择人”和“任势”等关系,并深入阐述了如何运用“奇正”以克敌制胜的问题。本篇的思想要点是: “Potential” refers to the use of military power and the resulting war situation. This and the first chapter (“form articles”) echo each other. Constitute a unit. The grandson in this article advocates that generals should give full play to their subjective initiative on the basis of their existing military capabilities and create and utilize advantageous situations through superb command art to win the victory of the war. Put forward to master the “score”, “form”, “odd”, “actual situation” and other links, handle “potential” and “festival”, “people” and “any potential” and other relations, and in-depth elaboration How to use the “odd” to overcome the enemy to win the problem. The main points of this chapter are: