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Sun Tzu - soon dzoo, fl. c.500–320. b.c., name used by the unknown Chinese authors of the sophisticated treatise on philosophy, logistics, espionage, and strategy and tactics known as The Art of War. It includes many commentaries by later Chinese philosophers. The core text was probably written by one person during a time of expanding feudal conflicts, but the exact century is uncertain


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    The Art of War » Read Now

    by Sun-Tzu Ping Fa, Ralph D. Sawyer. 375 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    Unlike most editions of Sun-tzu's valuable text currently available (many simply retreads of older, flawed translations), this superb new translation makes use of the best available classical Chinese manuscripts, including and ancient "tomb text" version discovered by archaeologists at Linyi, China. Maps.
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    Sun Tzu and the Art of Modern Warfare » Read Now

    by Mark McNeilly. 328 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    Long acknowledged as a classic text on strategy, Sun Tzu's The Art of War has been admired by leaders as diverse as Mao Zedong and General Norman Schwartzkopf. However, written two thousand years ago, the book can be somewhat daunting to the modern reader. Now Mark McNeilly, author of Sun Tzu and...
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    Strategic Logic and Political Rationality (Chap. 5 "Sunzi Bingfa as History and Theory") » Read Now

    by Brandford A. Lee, Karl F.Walling. 306 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    "One of three volumes in honour of the teaching and scholarship of the late Michael I. Handel, this book details the universal logic of strategy and the ability of liberal-democratic governments to address this logic rationally. Treating war as an extensio"
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    The American War in Vietnam: Lessons, Legacies, and Implications for Future Conflicts ("Sun Tzu: Revolutionary War in the Asian Context" begins on p. 99) » Read Now

    by Lawrence E.Grinter, Peter M.Dunn. 166 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    "The lessons, legacies, and implications for future conflicts are the purpose of this collection of work on The American War in Vietnam. This is an assemblage of ten superb papers which outline why America failed in Vietnam. . . . Military readers will find the section on How the War Was Fought...
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    The Tao of Spycraft: Intelligence Theory and Practice in Traditional China (Discussion of Sun Tzu and The Art of War begins on p. 123) » Read Now

    by Ralph D. Sawyer. 624 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    A notable aspect of Sun Tzu's Art of War is its unabashed recommendation for the use of spies. Later Confucian moralists & early Western readers of Sun Tzu expressed, hypocritically, shock & disdain for this open acknowledgment of the benefits of espionage in war & politics. However, it is not just...
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    An Encyclopedia of War and Ethics (Discussion of Sun Tzu begins on p. 464) » Read Now

    by Donald A. Wells. 539 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    This is the first encyclopedia that critically surveys the ethics of warmaking from a variety of perspectives. Noted experts raise basic questions about what is "just" in war, describe the views of historic and contemporary thinkers on ethical matters, survey practices at different periods, and...

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