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Sun Tzu
Thirteen short chapters set out how wars are won before they are fought: by reckoning one's own strength against the enemy's, by keeping campaigns short…
Thirteen short chapters set out how wars are won before they are fought: by reckoning one's own strength against the enemy's, by keeping campaigns short because long wars ruin a state, by attacking the enemy's plans rather than his cities, and by knowing both the enemy and oneself. Sun Tzu writes about terrain, marching, the use of fire and, at the end, spies, always with the same idea underneath, that the best victory is the one won without a battle, and that deception, timing and morale count for more than numbers.
The treatise is traditionally dated to China's Spring and Autumn period, more than two thousand years ago, and generals, statesmen and, lately, business schools have read it ever since. This is Lionel Giles's translation of 1910, the first scholarly one in English; Moira Fogarty reads it in an hour and twelve minutes, two chapters to most tracks.
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