Foreword
TheLifeandTimesofSunTzu
TheBasicStructureofSunTzusArtofWar
ChapterILayingPlans
OnBeingCautiousofWar
OntheGistoftheBook
OnPoliticalElements
ChapterIIWagingWar
OntheDangersofWar
OnQuickVictory
ChapterIIIAttackbyStratagem
OnCompleteVictory
OnKnowingtheEnemyandKnowingYourself
ChapterIVDispositionofMilitaryStrength
OnConqueringanEnemyEasilyConquered
OnCalculatingPower
ChapterVUseofEnergy.
OnMomentumandTiming
OnExtraordinaryandNormal
ChapterVIWeaknessesandStrengths
ToAvoidWhatisStrongandStrikeatWhatisWeak
OnInitiativeandFlexibility
OnInitiativeinWar
OntheThreeLevelsofSunTzusTheory
ChapterVIIManeuvering
OnAdvantageousManeuvering
OnTurningtheDeviousintotheDirect
OnLogisticalSupport
ChapterVIIIVariationinTactics
OnGenerals
OnWarPreparedness
ChapterIXOntheMarch
OnFlexibleMovementofTroops
OnGoverningtheForces
ChapterXTerrain
OnAidofTerraintoOperations
OnKnowingtheWeatherandKnowingtheTerrain
ChapterXITheNineVarietiesofGround
OnOperationalEnvironment
OnthePsychologyofanArmy
OnCoordinationandCooperation
ChapterXIIAttackbyFire
OnMethodsandPrinciplesofAttackingbyFire
OnWasteandStagnation
ChapterXIIIUseofSpies
OntheMeaningandPrinciplesofUsingSpies
OntheStructureofSunTzusChapters
"In civilian discussions of military affairs, they inevitably refer to the thirteen chapters of Sun Tzus Art of War."
——Sima Qian (145 BC ~ 86 BC), the great Chinese historian, author of The Records of the Grand Historian
Sun Tzu is a "great military expert:
——Mao Zedong (1893~ 1976), the founder of the Peoples Republic of China
"Sun Tzu s essays on” The Art of War form the earliest of known treatises on the subject, but have never been surpassed in corn comprehensiveness and depth of understanding. They might be termed the concentrated essence of wisdom on the conduct of war. Among all the military thinkers of the past, only Clausewitz is comparable, and even he is more dated than Sun Tzu, and in part antiquated, although he was writing more than two thousand years later. Sun Tzu has clearer vision, more profound insight, and eternal freshness."
——Liddell Hart (1895~1970), the English milit...
SunTzusTheArtofWarisaChinesemilitarytreatisethatwaswrittenbySunTzuinthe6thcenturyBC，duringtheSpringandAutumnperiod.Composedof13chapters，eachofwhichisdevotedtooneaspectofwarfare，itissaidtobethedefinitiveworkonmilitarystrategiesandtacticsofitstime，andstilloneofthebasictexts.
TheArtofWarisoneoftheoldestandmostsuccessfulbooksonmilitarystrategy.Ithashadan
influenceonEasternmilitarythinking，businesstactics，andbeyond.SunTzusuggestedtheimportanceofpositioninginstrategyandthatpositionisaffectedbothbyobjectiveconditionsinthephysicalenvironmentandthesubjectiveopinionsofcompetitiveactorsinthatenvironment.Hethoughtthatstrategywasnotplanninginthesenseofworkingthroughanestablishedlist，butratherthatitrequiresquickandappropriateresponsestochangingconditions.Planningworksinacontrolledenvironment，butinachangingenvironment，competingplanscollide，creatingunexpectedsituations.
ThebookwastranslatedintotheFrenchlanguagein1772byFrenchJesuitJeanJosephMarieAmiot，andintoEnglishbyBritishofficerEverardFergusonCalthropin1905.ItlikelyinfluencedNapoleon,andleadersasdiverseasMaoZedong,GeneralVoNguyenGiap,BaronAntoine-HenriJomini,andGeneralDouglasMacArthurhaveclaimedtohavedrawninspirationfromthework.
TheArtofWarhasalsobeenappliedtobusinessandmanagerialstrategies.
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