This book, the ancient Chinese classic by Sun Tzu, available for free online from that link, is one I've read before - and I don't really have anything new to say about it. I'm just re-reading to allow its insights to percolate a bit. Sorry for the disappointing post.
every time I finish reading a book, any book, I write a post with some thoughts on it. how long/meaningful these posts are depends how complex my reaction to the book is, though as the blog's aged I've started gonzoing them a bit in all honesty
Showing posts with label Sun Tzu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sun Tzu. Show all posts
Tuesday, 27 July 2021
Thursday, 7 March 2019
the Art of War
This ancient Chinese text by Sun Tzu has, purportedly, been high-ranking among the most influential books in the history of military, political, cultural, corporate, &etc kinds of strategically-navigated arenas of conflict for like, ever. However upon reading I found for my own taste a surprising amount of it is ridiculously practical pointers on logistics and supply lines, a furtherly surprising amount quasi-mystical poetic ruminations on various types of ground; on the whole though, there is depth & subtlety in every [stanza?] of it - and it's all online for free anyway, so in the spirit of a decisive tactician I am going to withhold sharing precise information from my own perspective so that others are forced to send spies out for themselves - only for your camp to find itself under my cunning ambush. You never expected that, did you?
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