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This 2,500 year-old book proves that while the weaponry has changed over time, the rules for successful warfare strategies have not. It is a surprisingly compact distillation of strategic principles that is still as useful today as it was when Sun Zi [Sun Tzu] first wrote it.
- Chapter 5: Energy
12: 激 水 之 疾 ， 至 于 漂 石 者 ， 势 也 ﹔: The onset of troops is like...
- Variation in Tactics
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of...
- Weak Points and Strong
O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn...
- The Army on The March
23: 尘 高 而 锐 者 ， 车 来 也 ﹔ 卑 而 广 者 ， 徒 来 也 ﹔ 散 而 条 达 者 ， 樵 采 也...
- Maneuvering
He will conquer who has learnt the artifice of deviation....
- Chapter 5: Energy
Dr. Giles produced a work primarily intended for scholars of the Chinese civiliza-tion and language. It contains the Chinese text of Sun Tzu, the English translation, and voluminous notes along with numerous footnotes. Unfortunately, some of his notes and footnotes contain Chinese characters; some are completely Chinese. Thus, a conver-
The book contains a detailed explanation and analysis of the 5th-century BC Chinese military, from weapons, environmental conditions, and strategy to rank and discipline. Sun also stressed the importance of intelligence operatives and espionage to the war effort.
written 2,500 years ago in China, it is arguably the most important work on the subject of strategy in the world today. Written by a gifted and experienced Chinese general named Sun Wu, The Art of War was intended only for royalty and the military elite of his time period. However, this treatise would
The present book, Sun Tzu’s Art of War: The Modern Chinese Interpretation, was written by General Tao Hanzhang, a senior officer in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army.
Nov 24, 2015 · November 24, 2015. Sun Tzu’s The Art of War is perhaps the oldest and one of the most widely read classics of military strategy. Published in ancient China an estimated 2,500 years ago, it has remained “the most important military treatise in Asia” according to the historian and translator Ralph D. Sawyer. [1]
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This idea, that the true object of war is peace, has its root in the national temperament of the Chinese. Even so far back as 597 B.C., these memorable words were uttered by Prince Zhuang 莊 of the Chu State: 夫文 止戈為武...
