I. Laying Plans
1. Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the state.
2. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
For those of you who may be unaware, Sun Wu was a Chinese military strategist who lived about 2600 years ago. His definitive work, The Art of War, contains valuable wisdom dealing with war, particularly targeted towards the commander.
The work I will be citing in these posts is from the Barnes and Noble Classics Collection, copyright 2003. The translation contained herein was published by Lionel Giles in 1910. It's still available at Barnes and Noble for $7.95 US ($9.95 CAN). This edition is quite valuable for the lay reader, as it contains additional commentary from various Western and Eastern philosophers and strategists.
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