The Art of War
The Art of War - a brief analysis
The Art of War is one of the oldest and most successful books on military strategy. It composed of 13 chapters, each of which is based on philosophy, used the idea of philosophy to observe the war, discussed and find out the general rule of war. Though it is very short, it devoted to one aspect of warfare.
The Art of War has a perfect logic system. These 13 chapters, no matter more or less will influence the main idea. Just like the first chapter is Laying Plans, it explores the five fundamental factors and seven elements that define a successful outcome. The second chapter is Waging War, this part is not like the warfare that we think like today, it explains how to understand the economy of war and how success requires making the winning play, which in turn, requires limiting the cost of competition and conflict. After the sufficient preparation, what we need is stratagem, so there are Attack by Stratagem, Tactical Dispositions, Energy, Weak Points and Strong, Maneuvering and Variation of Tactics chapters, all of them are focus on essentials of warfare. In the end of the book, it talks about The Army on the March, Terrain, The Nine Situations, The Attack by Fire and The Use of Spies, each of them is specific stratagem.
As a military strategy book, it’s full of sagacious idea, and is it not only focusing on warfare, but also analyzing military thinking, business tactics and even leadership and management skills.
So is The Art of War not only on military application, but also on application outsider the military. Just like on our course that we talked about leadership. As we know, a leader is the core for a company, if you are a competent leader, the company will be flourishing, but on the contrary, the answer is denying, and the
company will run into confusion.
The competent leadership is derived from noble personality. Sun Tzu told us that we need to develop the quality of noble character, like these dangerous faults which
The Art of War is one of the oldest and most successful books on military strategy. It composed of 13 chapters, each of which is based on philosophy, used the idea of philosophy to observe the war, discussed and find out the general rule of war. Though it is very short, it devoted to one aspect of warfare.
The Art of War has a perfect logic system. These 13 chapters, no matter more or less will influence the main idea. Just like the first chapter is Laying Plans, it explores the five fundamental factors and seven elements that define a successful outcome. The second chapter is Waging War, this part is not like the warfare that we think like today, it explains how to understand the economy of war and how success requires making the winning play, which in turn, requires limiting the cost of competition and conflict. After the sufficient preparation, what we need is stratagem, so there are Attack by Stratagem, Tactical Dispositions, Energy, Weak Points and Strong, Maneuvering and Variation of Tactics chapters, all of them are focus on essentials of warfare. In the end of the book, it talks about The Army on the March, Terrain, The Nine Situations, The Attack by Fire and The Use of Spies, each of them is specific stratagem.
As a military strategy book, it’s full of sagacious idea, and is it not only focusing on warfare, but also analyzing military thinking, business tactics and even leadership and management skills.
So is The Art of War not only on military application, but also on application outsider the military. Just like on our course that we talked about leadership. As we know, a leader is the core for a company, if you are a competent leader, the company will be flourishing, but on the contrary, the answer is denying, and the
company will run into confusion.
The competent leadership is derived from noble personality. Sun Tzu told us that we need to develop the quality of noble character, like these dangerous faults which