Military Philosophy

The classic works help people overcome this historical amnesia. Niccolo Machiavelli wrote: “... anyone who wants to see what is going to happen must think about what the past is: there are very similar counterparts in all times in the world ... because these actions are carried out by the people. And they have and have always had the same passion with the ancients, and therefore inevitably go to the same result. So it’s very important for military professionals to study various military theorists’ ideology to learn lessons from past and make assessment for future.
In this paper I’ll make comparison between the Western reputed theorist Carl von Clausewitz who and the Eastern prominent theorist Sun Tzu. Even though Sun Tzu’s book “The Art of
Clausewitz’s idea about “military genius” to be brief is generals who don’t have courage can’t be imagine, no courageous person can’t play great military leaders role, first prerequisite temperament for military leaders it should be recognized courageous. He also made following analysis relationship between wisdom and courageous: Intelligence does not mean courageous, it’s very common smart people are lack of decision making. In short, Clausewitz considers too much on courage than wisdom. Very interesting, Sun Tzu’s idea is just the opposite of him. Sun Tzu ranked "wisdom" as the first and "courage" is ranked fourth. So why these two theorists’ ideology on military genius is relevant to military professionals today. In Mongolian proverb said: there are no one has ten finger grows equally, means as human being impossible all are powerful and genius. From this perspective, modern military professionals should pay attention to developing all aspects of ability during military training. By this way we can find the military genius that we need in