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Any opinions on the Art of War by Sun Tzu ?

  • 18-02-2017 12:41pm
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    Stars and Stripes
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    I have read parts of it and I have to say it's insight is amazing. Not just for military purposes but you can see how it can be applied to business, organizations and even to your personal life itself. One of the noticeable aspects I find from it is that gives advice on how to engage with differences without actually having to do an obvious confrontation with tips on how to outsmart your opponent so that physical battle is not necessary. So guys, any opinions on it ?

    " Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.... The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting .....The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable. "

    https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/sun_tzu.html


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    Read Machiavelli The Prince especially the bits about new princes and apply those to recent history in the Middle East for a top down view.


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    Stars and Stripes
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Read Machiavelli The Prince especially the bits about new princes and apply those to recent history in the Middle East for a top down view.
    Machiavelli had a low opinion of Mercenaries :) He probably was too right, I remember watching about the Siege of Jadotville and the Belgian and French mercenaries were quite cowardly in sending the badly trained Luba tribesmen to fight on the front line while the mercs stayed away at a safe distance. And also by the way, the Irish soldiers didn't think much of the Gurkha's attached to the regular Indian army, too trigger happy with the unarmed locals which only made a bad situation vastly worse.

    " Mercenaries and auxiliaries are useless and dangerous; and if one holds his state based on these arms, he will stand neither firm nor safe; for they are disunited, ambitious and without discipline, unfaithful, valiant before friends, cowardly before enemies; they have neither the fear of God nor fidelity to men, and destruction is deferred only so long as the attack is; for in peace one is robbed by them, and in war by the enemy. "

    http://www.constitution.org/mac/prince12.htm


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