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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
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
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]
The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the late Spring and Autumn period (roughly 5th century BC). The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu ("Master Sun"), is composed of 13 chapters.
When Lionel Giles began his translation of Sun Tzu’s ART OF WAR, the work was virtually unknown in Europe. Its introduction to Europe began in 1782 when a French Jesuit Father living in China, Joseph Amiot, acquired a copy of it, and translated it into French. It was not a good translation because, according to Dr. Giles, "[I]t contains a
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.
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Early Chinese writers wrote their thoughts and sayings onto bamboo strips, which were then bound together into rolls. The earliest manuscripts of The Art of War are such rolls, leading scholars to debate the original order of the work.
