The Sunzi bingfa or The Methods of War by Master Sun (better known as The Art of War), is probably the most important treatise in the genre of ancient Chinese military corpus. Yet Its popularity goes beyond the Chinese culture today since it has been linked with famous and infamous military figures throughout world history, from Genghis Khan to Napoleon, from Ho Chi-Minh to Mao Zedong, and from General McArthur to General Westmoreland. In many US military schools today, Sunzi’s art of war is read as a core textbook on strategic theory in conjunction with the military text by Carl von Clausewitzz. In this chapter, I will explore the idea of leadership in war advocated in the Sunzi in the light of the art of governance explicated in the Laozi. The focus of the discussion will be on what I will call “the yin-method” in terms of strategic leadership that emphasizes “virtuosic engagement and responsiveness.” It is my intention to argue that the yin-strategy in the Sunzi does not simply denote skillful methods (i.e., “shock and awe”) but bear an ethical consideration.