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Name: The Art of War
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Author: Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu

Classic military strategy for politics, business, and everyday life

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Planning, calculating and comparing armies leads to victory.

If a state goes to war, it is fighting for its very survival. Hence, all efforts must be made to understand the art of war, and, in the event of war, that knowledge must be used to make plans.

The general who draws meticulous plans before battle will defeat the general who makes none. Therefore, you must always plan and deliberate before battle. By comparing the opposing armies on seven considerations, you can forecast victory or defeat:

Which of the two rulers of the states at war commands complete accord and obedience from his people so that they will follow him even to their deaths?
Which of the two generals is more capable?
Which side has advantages of heaven and earth, meaning of circumstances like the weather, distances to be covered and the nature of the terrain?
Which side enforces the discipline of its men more strongly?
Which side has the stronger army?
Which side has the better trained officers and men?
Which side has more consistency in giving rewards and punishments to enforce discipline?

Carefully compare the army of your enemy to your own army so that you will know where he is strong and where he is weak. Then plan according to the circumstances. If you know your enemy and know yourself, you will always be victorious.

Planning, calculating and comparing armies leads to victory.

Secure yourself against defeat, and wait for an opportunity for victory.

Successful strategists only enter battles they know they will win, whereas unsuccessful ones enter frays and only then begin to think of how they can win.

A skillful fighter avoids battles he may lose, thus ensuring he is never defeated. But even the most brilliant general cannot say exactly when victory will come, for he must wait for the enemy to make a mistake and provide him the opportunity for victory.

Warfare is only successful if sovereigns and generals do not cause their own defeat.

In war, an army is commanded by a general, but a general is commanded by a sovereign. Hence, by his commands, a sovereign can impede his army. The most disastrous ways he can do this are by commanding them to advance or retreat when such action is impossible, by attempting to govern the army as laxly as he does his state or by placing officers in inappropriate roles.

These errors shake the confidence of soldiers and can cause defeat.

Conserve your resources through stratagems, foraging and espionage.

Maintaining an army is expensive: a host of 100,000 men can cost 1,000 ounces of silver a day for provisions like food, chariots, spears, arrows, armor and oxen.

Prolonged warfare can exhaust the resources of any state, leaving it weak and vulnerable. Hence, aim for quick and decisive victories, not prolonged campaigns.

Deceive your enemy and impose your will on him.

The art of war is based on deception. You must mask strength with weakness, courage with timidity and order with disorder. Confuse your enemy and let him grow careless.

Have your troops feign disorder when in reality they are highly disciplined. When you draw close to your enemy, make it seem like you are far away. When you are able to attack, make it seem like you are unable.

Observe the terrain and your enemy, then adapt accordingly.

A good general knows that there are always positions that cannot be held, roads that must not be followed and commands from the sovereign that must be disobeyed.

Just as water shapes its course according to the ground it flows over, so you too must adapt to the situation, to the terrain and to the enemy’s disposition.

To wage war successfully, manage your troops sternly, keep them in uncertainty and make them fight to the death.

Managing and controlling a large army is no different than managing a small one: you must simply divide your men into smaller numbers and then use signals such as gongs, drums, banners and signal fires to control your forces.

They will move as one, and the cowardly will not dare to retreat nor will the brave be left to charge alone. A skilled general leads his army as if he was leading a single man by the hand.

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Thousands of years old, The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that is considered the definitive work of military tactics and strategy. It has greatly influenced military tactics as well as business and legal strategy in both the East and West. Leaders such as general Douglas MacArthur and Mao Zedong have drawn inspiration from it.

Wer The Art of War lesen sollte

Anyone interested in the foundation of many military, business and legal tactics
Anyone who wants to understand how warfare was conducted thousands of years ago

Über den Autor

Sun Tzu was a military general, strategist and philosopher during the Zhou Dynasty of ancient China in ca. 500 BC.

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