The Art of War is almost certainly the most famous study of strategy ever written and has had an extraordinary influence on the history of warfare.The principles Sun-tzu expounded were utilized brilliantly by such great Asian war leaders as Mao Tse-tung, Giap, and Yamamoto.First translated two hundred years ago by a French missionary, Sun-tzu s Art of War has been credited with influencing Napoleon, the German General Staff, and even the planning for Desert Storm.Many Japanese companies make this book required reading for their key executives.And increasingly, Western...
The Art of War is almost certainly the most famous study of strategy ever written and has had an extraordinary influence on the history of warf...
The debate about the Military Revolution has been one of the most controversial and exciting areas of discussion and research in the fields of early modern European history and military history. Scholars have long sought to explain the massive changes in European military techniques and technologies that took place between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the industrial agechanges that transformed the armies and navies of the West into the most powerful war-making entities the world had ever known.Historians have disagreed about and vigorously debated the importance of these...
The debate about the Military Revolution has been one of the most controversial and exciting areas of discussion and research in the fields of early m...
When did war begin? Standard military accounts tend to start with the Graeco-Persian wars, laying undue emphasis on the preeminence of Greek heavy infantry. But, as this strikingly original and entertaining book shows, the origins of war can be traced back not to the Iron Age, or even to the Bronze Age, but to the emergence of settled life itself nearly 10,000 years ago. The military revolution that occurred thenthe invention of major new weapons, the massive fortifications, the creation of strategy and tacticsultimately gave rise to the great war machines of ancient Egypt, Assyria, and...
When did war begin? Standard military accounts tend to start with the Graeco-Persian wars, laying undue emphasis on the preeminence of Greek heavy inf...
The enormous recent popularity in America of Sun-tzu's Art of War has heightened awareness of the great Chinese tradition of writing on theory and practice of war. This tradition has always emphasized that warfare is as much the deployment of spiritual and mental forces as of combat forces, as much a matter of patience and attention as of brute strength. As a result, new generations of readers have found many of its precepts applicable to forms of struggle far from any actual battlefield.While it has brought this tradition greater exposure, the reception of Art of War threatens to overshadow...
The enormous recent popularity in America of Sun-tzu's Art of War has heightened awareness of the great Chinese tradition of writing on theory and pra...
