The Art Of War

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  • This
  • ancient
  • Chinese
  • military
  • text
  • dissects
  • thirteen
  • aspects
  • of
  • warfare
  • from
  • an
  • strategical
  • and
  • intellectual
  • point
  • of
  • view.
  • Deploring
  • the
  • use
  • of
  • excess
  • force
  • causing
  • economic
  • and
  • civilian
  • losses
  • while
  • discussing
  • strategies
  • that
  • are
  • still
  • relevant
  • to
  • modern
  • warfare,
  • the
  • text
  • continues
  • to
  • resonate
  • with
  • readers
  • around
  • the
  • world
  • and
  • has
  • been
  • considered
  • fundamental
  • in
  • military
  • doctrine
  • for
  • over
  • two
  • thousand
  • years.The
  • Art
  • of
  • War
  • was
  • first
  • translated
  • for
  • the
  • Western
  • world
  • in
  • the
  • late
  • eighteenth
  • century.
  • The
  • work
  • is
  • attributed
  • to
  • the
  • ancient
  • writer
  • Sun
  • Tzu
  • (Sun
  • Wu)
  • and
  • is
  • thought
  • to
  • have
  • been
  • originally
  • recorded
  • at
  • the
  • end
  • of
  • the
  • sixth
  • century,
  • B.C.E.
  • However,
  • due
  • to
  • its
  • age
  • Chinese
  • historians
  • contest
  • whether
  • or
  • not
  • the
  • version
  • of
  • The
  • Art
  • of
  • War
  • we
  • have
  • today
  • is
  • a
  • revised
  • version
  • of
  • the
  • original
  • treatise.HarperTorch
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