[chance33_98]

See here for TONS of other free etexts

[spokeshave]

Old hat.......a machine gun can dispatch an army of warriers.....what you need is Lanchester Strategy

[Alpha One]

Here's a hyperlinked version of the Giles translation of Sun Tzu, posted here for discussion.

[cmsgop]

My Shih-Tzu is an artist.......

She will Pee on all your belongings.......

[PoorMuttly]

Chapter XIV. EMPTY BLADDER BEFORE BOARDING CHARRIOT

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[Humidston]

Chapter III - supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

BINGO! Bush is trying to sweat Saddam out.

[Alpha One]

A Sun Tzu ping.

[eureka!]

bump for victory for the US and its allies...

[skinkinthegrass]

THANK YOU, FReeper
Been looking for a site of this kind for mos...

[Atlas Sneezed]

Some call it "Feng Shui."

I call it "Bull Shui."

[Citizen Tom Paine]

I strongly recommend that anyone interested in the military or military sciences should buy and study this book.

[Jeff Head]

"All warfare is deception." Sun Tzu

[Fiddlstix]

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[Centurion2000]

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[rboatman]

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[FreedomFarmer]

I collect various editions and translations of The Art of War. IMHO, Samuel B. Griffith's is the most consise, James Clavel's the most readable. Giles' redux of 1910 has a number of problems.
The worst translation is probably Fr. Amiot's of 1772 in Paris, which Napoleon likely studied.

The worst plagiarism of The Art of War is Clausewitz's insufferable On War; the best is Mao Tse-tung's Little Red Book.

[Clive]

Extract from Chapter III (Paras 1 to 7) (Excluding the commentary):

1. Sun Tzu said: In the operations of war, where there are in the field a thousand swift chariots, as many heavy chariots, and a hundred thousand mail-clad soldiers, with provisions enough to carry them a thousand LI, the expenditure at home and at the front, including entertainment of guests, small items such as glue and paint, and sums spent on chariots and armor, will reach the total of a thousand ounces of silver per day. Such is the cost of raising an army of 100 ,000 men.

2. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be damped. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength.

3. Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain.

4. Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardor damped, your strength exhausted and your treasure spent, other chieftains will spring up to take advantage of your extremity. Then no man, however wise, will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue.

5. Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.

6. There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.

7 It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

Bush has no doubt read the Sun Tzu. Certainly his military advisers have.

[Ff--150]

What is interesting about the Art of War is that these strategies have been used today. I need to reread this to get up to speed. Very good reading.

[justaguy]

Thanks, bump