If only for its window to a distant past. This text is still studied widely by military theorists, and so it should be, it one of the seminal works. Just the present capacity to effectively engage in a conflict if you must. The Art of War, written in China during the fifth century BCE by military expert Sun Tzu, has been favored reading among soldiers and strategists for two millennia. If you do (all) this well you wont need the nasty war bit. Know your enemy, know yourself and know your environment. He was associated (formally or as an inspiration) with The School of the Military, one of the philosophical systems of the Hundred Schools of Thought. If you must do it do it well and efficiently. 500 BCE) was a Chinese military strategist and general best known as the author of the work The Art of War, a treatise on military strategy (also known as The Thirteen Chapters ). War, like it or not is a part of our continuum and this book is eventually about how to NOT do it. If I were setting up a backup up archive on say Mars this would be one of the texts I would would have engraved into the quantum level fabric of the data store :) None the less it still contains eternal truths guidelines and wisdoms. So don't expect simple clarity, on a first read :) (from well before the 20th C version of China) A time of many competing states mostly kingdoms after a sort, not a large and unified jurisdictional entity, such as we see in the early 21C. This book, this work, is an English translation of recovered snippets of ancient Chinese script found on bamboo strips a couple of thousand of years old. Seems most reviews here on this work are just about formatting or some such.
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