It’s a chief principle in military affairs to go where ye are least expected.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet

Novel (1886), Kidnapped, ch. 26 “End of the Flight: We Pass the Forth” [Alan]
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This chapter was originally published in Young Folks Paper, Vol. 29, No. 816 (1886-07-17).

See Sun-Tzu 1, 2 (5th C BC).