The Art of War in World History Chaliand Study Guide

Aboriginal Chinese military treatise by Sun Tzu

The Art of War

Author	(trad.) Sun Tzu
State	Communist china
Linguistic communication	Classical Chinese
Subject	Armed forces fine art
Publication date	5th century BC
Text	The Art of War at Wikisource

The Art of War
Traditional Chinese	孫子兵法
Simplified Chinese	孙子兵法
Literal meaning	"Master Sun'south Military Methods"
Transcriptions Standard Standard mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Sūnzǐ bīngfǎ Wade–Giles Lord's day1-tzŭ3 ping1-fa3 IPA [swə́ntsɹ̩̀ píŋfà] Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Syūnjí bīngfaat Jyutping Syun1-zi2 bingone-faat3 IPA [sýːntsǐː péŋfāːt̚] Southern Min Tâi-lô Sunday-tzú ping-huat Old Chinese Baxter–Sagart (2014) *sˤun tsəʔ praŋ p.kap

The Art of War (Chinese: 孫子兵法) is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Belatedly Spring and Fall Menses (roughly 5th century BC). The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu ("Chief Sun"), is composed of 13 chapters. Each ane is devoted to a dissimilar set up of skills (or "art") related to warfare and how it applies to military strategy and tactics. For nigh i,500 years information technology was the lead text in an anthology that was formalized every bit the Vii War machine Classics by Emperor Shenzong of Vocal in 1080. The Art of War remains the nearly influential strategy text in Eastward Asian warfare^[one] and has influenced both Far Eastern and Western armed services thinking, business tactics, legal strategy, lifestyles and across.

The book contains a detailed caption and analysis of the 5th-century BC Chinese military, from weapons and strategy to rank and subject field. Dominicus also stressed the importance of intelligence operatives and espionage to the war effort. Considered one of history's finest war machine tacticians and analysts, his teachings and strategies formed the footing of avant-garde military machine training for millennia to come up.

The book was translated into French and published in 1772 (re-published in 1782) by the French Jesuit Jean Joseph Marie Amiot. A partial translation into English was attempted by British officer Everard Ferguson Calthrop in 1905 nether the title The Volume of State of war. The first annotated English translation was completed and published past Lionel Giles in 1910.^[ii] Military and political leaders such as the Chinese communist revolutionary Mao Zedong, Japanese daimyō Takeda Shingen, Vietnamese general Võ Nguyên Giáp, and American military full general Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. are all cited equally having fatigued inspiration from the volume.^{[ citation needed ]}

History [edit]

Text and commentaries [edit]

The Art of War is traditionally attributed to an aboriginal Chinese military general known as Sun Tzu (now Romanized "Sunzi") pregnant "Master Lord's day". Dominicus Tzu was traditionally said to have lived in the sixth century BC, but The Art of War 'southward earliest parts probably date to at least 100 years later on.^[3]

Sima Qian's Records of the 1000 Historian, the first of China's 24 dynastic histories, records an early Chinese tradition that a text on military matters was written past one "Lord's day Wu" ( 孫武 ) from the Country of Qi, and that this text had been read and studied by Rex Helü of Wu ( r. 514 BC – 495 BC).^[iv] This text was traditionally identified with the received Main Sun's Fine art of War. The conventional view was that Sun Wu was a military theorist from the end of the Leap and Fall period (776–471 BC) who fled his home land of Qi to the southeastern kingdom of Wu, where he is said to accept impressed the king with his ability to train fifty-fifty "overnice palace ladies" in warfare and to have made Wu'southward armies powerful plenty to challenge their western rivals in the land of Chu. This view is nonetheless widely held in China.^[5]

The strategist, poet, and warlord Cao Cao in the early on third century Advert authored the earliest known commentary to the Art of War.^[iv] Cao's preface makes clear that he edited the text and removed certain passages, but the extent of his changes were unclear historically.^[4] The Fine art of War appears throughout the bibliographical catalogs of the Chinese dynastic histories, but listings of its divisions and size varied widely.^[iv]

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First effectually the 12th century, some Chinese scholars began to incertitude the historical existence of Sun Tzu, primarily on the grounds that he is not mentioned in the historical classic The Commentary of Zuo (Zuo Zhuan), which mentions virtually of the notable figures from the Spring and Autumn menstruation.^[4] The name "Lord's day Wu" ( 孫武 ) does not appear in any text prior to the Records of the Yard Historian,^[6] and has been suspected to be a made-upward descriptive cognomen significant "the fugitive warrior": the surname "Dominicus" is glossed as the related term "avoiding" ( xùn , 遜 ), while "Wu" is the ancient Chinese virtue of "martial, valiant" ( wǔ , 武 ), which corresponds to Sunzi's role as the hero's doppelgänger in the story of Wu Zixu.^[7] In the early 20th century, the Chinese writer and reformer Liang Qichao theorized that the text was really written in the 4th century BC by Sun Tzu's purported descendant Sun Bin, as a number of historical sources mention a military treatise he wrote.^[four] Dissimilar Sun Wu, Dominicus Bin appears to have been an bodily person who was a genuine authority on armed forces matters, and may take been the inspiration for the creation of the historical effigy "Dominicus Tzu" through a form of euhemerism.^[7]

In 1972, the Yinqueshan Han slips were discovered in two Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD) tombs near the city of Linyi in Shandong Province.^[8] Among the many bamboo slip writings independent in the tombs, which had been sealed between 134 and 118  BC, respectively were two separate texts, ane attributed to "Sunday Tzu", respective to the received text, and some other attributed to Sun Bin, which explains and expands upon the earlier The Art of State of war by Sunzi.^[9] The Sun Bin text'south fabric overlaps with much of the "Sunday Tzu" text, and the two may be "a single, continuously developing intellectual tradition united nether the Lord's day name".^[10] This discovery showed that much of the historical confusion was due to the fact that there were two texts that could have been referred to every bit "Master Sun'due south Art of War", not one.^[9] The content of the earlier text is nearly one-third of the chapters of the mod The Fine art of War, and their text matches very closely.^[eight] It is now generally accepted that the earlier The Fine art of War was completed sometime betwixt 500 and 430 BC.^[ix]

The 13 capacity [edit]

The Fine art of War is divided into thirteen capacity (or piān ); the drove is referred to every bit being one zhuàn ("whole" or alternatively "chronicle").

The Art of War chapter names and contents

Chapter	Lionel Giles (1910)[11]	R. Fifty. Wing (1988)	Ralph D. Sawyer (1996)	Chow-Hou Wee (2003)	Michael Nylan (2020)	Contents
I	Laying Plans	The Calculations	Initial Estimations	Detail Assessment and Planning (Chinese: 始計)	Showtime Calculations	Explores the five cardinal factors (the Fashion, seasons, terrain, leadership, and direction) and seven elements that determine the outcomes of military engagements. By thinking, assessing and comparing these points, a commander can calculate his chances of victory. Habitual difference from these calculations volition ensure failure via improper action. The text stresses that war is a very grave matter for the country and must not be commenced without due consideration.
Ii	Waging War	The Claiming	Waging War	Waging War (Chinese: 作戰)	Initiating Battle	Explains how to sympathise the economy of warfare and how success requires winning decisive engagements quickly. This section advises that successful armed services campaigns crave limiting the cost of competition and conflict.
Iii	Set on by Stratagem	The Plan of Attack	Planning Offensives	Strategic Assail (Chinese: 謀攻)	Planning an Attack	Defines the source of strength equally unity, not size, and discusses the five factors that are needed to succeed in any war. In order of importance, these critical factors are: Attack, Strategy, Alliances, Army and Cities.
IV	Tactical Dispositions	Positioning	War machine Disposition	Disposition of the Army (Chinese: 軍形)	Forms to Perceive	Explains the importance of defending existing positions until a commander is capable of advancing from those positions in rubber. It teaches commanders the importance of recognizing strategic opportunities, and teaches not to create opportunities for the enemy.
V	Use of Energy	Directing	Strategic Armed services Power	Forces (Chinese: 兵勢)	The Disposition of Power	Explains the utilise of creativity and timing in building an army's momentum.
VI	Weak Points and Stiff	Illusion and Reality	Vacuity and Substance	Weaknesses and Strengths (Chinese: 虛實)	Weak and Strong	Explains how an army's opportunities come up from the openings in the environment caused by the relative weakness of the enemy and how to reply to changes in the fluid battlefield over a given expanse.
Seven	Maneuvering an Ground forces	Engaging The Strength	Military Gainsay	Military Maneuvers (Chinese: 軍爭)	Contending Armies	Explains the dangers of direct conflict and how to win those confrontations when they are forced upon the commander.
Eight	Variation of Tactics	The Nine Variations	Nine Changes	Variations and Adaptability (Chinese: 九變)	9 Contingencies	Focuses on the demand for flexibility in an ground forces's responses. It explains how to respond to shifting circumstances successfully.
IX	The Army on the March	Moving The Force	Maneuvering the Army	Motility and Evolution of Troops (Chinese: 行軍)	Fielding the Army	Describes the different situations in which an army finds itself equally information technology moves through new enemy territories, and how to respond to these situations. Much of this department focuses on evaluating the intentions of others.
10	Classification of Terrain	Situational Positioning	Configurations of Terrain	Terrain (Chinese: 地形)	Conformations of the Lands	Looks at the iii general areas of resistance (distance, dangers and barriers) and the six types of ground positions that arise from them. Each of these six field positions offers sure advantages and disadvantages.
Eleven	The 9 Situations	The Ix Situations	Nine Terrains	The Ix Battlegrounds (Chinese: 九地)	Nine Kinds of Footing	Describes the nine common situations (or stages) in a entrada, from scattering to deadly, and the specific focus that a commander will need in lodge to successfully navigate them.
XII	Attack by Burn down	The Fiery Attack	Incendiary Attacks	Attacking with Fire (Chinese: 火攻)	Attacks with Burn down	Explains the general use of weapons and the specific utilize of the surround every bit a weapon. This section examines the five targets for assault, the v types of environmental assail and the appropriate responses to such attacks.
13	Utilize of Spies	The Employ of Intelligence	Employing Spies	Intelligence and Espionage (Chinese: 用間)	Using Spies	Focuses on the importance of developing good information sources, and specifies the v types of intelligence sources and how to best manage each of them.

Cultural influence [edit]

Military and intelligence applications [edit]

Across E Asia, The Fine art of War was office of the syllabus for potential candidates of military service examinations.

During the Sengoku period (c.  1467–1568), the Japanese daimyō Takeda Shingen (1521–1573) is said to have become about invincible in all battles without relying on guns, considering he studied The Fine art of State of war.^[12] The book even gave him the inspiration for his famous battle standard "Fūrinkazan" (Wind, Forest, Fire and Mountain), meaning fast as the wind, silent as a wood, ferocious as fire and immovable equally a mountain.

The translator Samuel B. Griffith offers a chapter on "Lord's day Tzu and Mao Tse-Tung" where The Fine art of War is cited as influencing Mao'south On Guerrilla Warfare, On the Protracted State of war and Strategic Bug of China's Revolutionary War, and includes Mao's quote: "We must not belittle the saying in the volume of Sun Wu Tzu, the great military expert of aboriginal China, 'Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a thousand battles without disaster.'"^[12]

During the Vietnam War, some Vietcong officers extensively studied The Art of War and reportedly could recite entire passages from memory. General Võ Nguyên Giáp successfully implemented tactics described in The Art of War during the Battle of Dien Bien Phu ending major French involvement in Indochina and leading to the accords which partitioned Vietnam into North and South. General Võ, later the chief PVA armed forces commander in the Vietnam War, was an avid pupil and practitioner of Sun Tzu's ideas.^[13] America's defeat at that place, more than any other event, brought Dominicus Tzu to the attention of leaders of U.South. war machine theory.^{[13] [fourteen] [15]}

The Department of the Army in the Us, through its Command and General Staff Higher, lists The Art of State of war equally ane example of a volume that may be kept at a military unit'south library.^[16]

The Art of War is listed on the Marine Corps Professional Reading Program (formerly known as the Commandant's Reading List). It is recommended reading for all U.s. War machine Intelligence personnel.^[17]

The Art of War is used as instructional fabric at the US Armed services Academy at West Betoken, in the course Armed services Strategy (470),^[eighteen] and it is also recommended reading for Officer cadets at the Royal Armed services Academy, Sandhurst. Some notable war machine leaders have stated the following nearly Sun Tzu and The Art of War:

"I always kept a copy of The Fine art of War on my desk-bound."^[19] – General Douglas MacArthur, 5 Star General & Supreme Commander for the Centrolineal Powers.

"I have read The Fine art of State of war by Dominicus Tzu. He continues to influence both soldiers & politicians."^[20] – General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, National Security Advisor, and Secretary of State.

According to some authors, the strategy of deception from The Art of War was studied and widely used by the KGB: "I volition strength the enemy to take our strength for weakness, and our weakness for strength, and thus will turn his strength into weakness".^[21] The volume is widely cited by KGB officers in accuse of disinformation operations in Vladimir Volkoff'south novel Le Montage.

Finnish Field Marshal Mannerheim and general Aksel Airo were gorging readers of Art of War; Airo kept the book on his bedside table in his quarters.^{[ citation needed ]}

Application outside the military [edit]

The Fine art of War has been practical to many fields outside of the war machine. Much of the text is about how to outsmart 1'south opponent without really having to engage in physical battle. As such, it has plant application as a training guide for many competitive endeavors that practise not involve bodily combat.

The Art of War is mentioned equally an influence in the primeval known Chinese collection of stories well-nigh fraud (more often than not in the realm of commerce), Zhang Yingyu'due south The Book of Swindles ( Du pian xin shu , 杜騙新書 , c.  1617), which dates to the late Ming dynasty.^[22]

Many business organization books have applied the lessons taken from the book to office politics and corporate business organisation strategy.^{[23] [24] [25]} Many Japanese companies make the book required reading for their key executives.^[26] The book is also popular among Western business circles citing its utilitarian values regarding management practices. Many entrepreneurs and corporate executives accept turned to information technology for inspiration and advice on how to succeed in competitive business situations. The volume has also been practical to the field of education.^[27]

The Fine art of State of war has been the subject of legal books^[28] and legal manufactures on the trial process, including negotiation tactics and trial strategy.^{[29] [thirty] [31] [32]}

The book The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene employs philosophies covered in The Art of War.^[33]

The Art of State of war has too been applied in sports. National Football League coach Bill Belichick, tape holder of the most Super Bowl wins in history, has stated on multiple occasions his admiration for The Art of War.^{[34] [35]} Brazilian association football coach Luiz Felipe Scolari actively used The Art of War for Brazil's successful 2002 World Cup campaign. During the tournament Scolari put passages of The Art of War underneath his players' doors in the night.^{[36] [37]}

The Art of War is often quoted while developing tactics and/or strategy in esports. "Play To Win" by David Sirlin analyses applications of the ideas from The Art of War in modern esports. The Art of War was released in 2014 as an due east-book companion alongside the Art of War DLC for Europa Universalis Four, a PC strategy game by Paradox Development Studios, with a foreword by Thomas Johansson.

Film and boob tube [edit]

The Fine art of War and Sun Tzu have been referenced and quoted in many movies and television set shows, including In the 1987 movie Wall Street, Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) frequently references it ^[38] The 20th James Bond film, Die Another Day (2002) also references The Art of War as the spiritual guide shared by Colonel Moon and his father.^[39] and in The Sopranos. In flavor 3, episode 8 ("He Is Risen"), Dr. Melfi suggests to Tony Soprano that he read the book.^[40] and the Star Expedition: The Side by side Generation outset-season episode "The Last Outpost", William Riker quotes The Fine art of State of war to Captain Picard, who expressed pleasance that Dominicus Tzu was withal taught at Starfleet Academy. Subsequently in the episode, a survivor from a long-dead nonhuman empire noted common aspects between his own people's wisdom and The Art of War with regard to knowing when and when non to fight.^{[ commendation needed ]}

The Art of War is a 2000 activity spy film directed past Christian Duguay and starring Wesley Snipes, Michael Biehn, Anne Archer and Donald Sutherland.^[41]

Notable translations [edit]

• Lord's day Tzu on the Art of War. Translated by Lionel Giles. London: Luzac and Company. 1910.
• The Art of War. Translated past Samuel B. Griffith. Oxford: Oxford Academy Press. 1963. ISBN978-0-19-501476-one. Role of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works.
• Sunday Tzu, The Art of War. Translated by Thomas Cleary. Boston: Shambhala Dragon Editions. 1988. ISBN978-0877734529.
• The Art of Warfare. Translated by Roger Ames. Random House. 1993. ISBN978-0-345-36239-1. .
• The Art of State of war. Translated by John Minford. New York: Viking. 2002. ISBN978-0-670-03156-6.
• The Art of State of war: Sunzi'south Military Methods. Translated by Victor H. Mair. New York: Columbia Academy Press. 2007. ISBN978-0-231-13382-1.
• The Fine art of War. Translated by Peter Harris. Everyman's Library. 2018. ISBN978-1101908006.
• The Scientific discipline of War: Sun Tzu'due south Fine art of War re-translated and re-considered. Translated by Christopher MacDonald. Hong Kong: Earnshaw Books. 2018. ISBN978-988-8422-69-2.
• The Art of War. Translated by Michael Nylan. W.Westward. Norton & Visitor, Inc. 2020. ISBN9781324004899.

See likewise [edit]

Concepts [edit]

• Military treatise
• Philosophy of war

Books [edit]

• Commentarii de Bello Gallico (Commentaries on the Gallic State of war) by Julius Caesar
• The Art of War by Niccolò Machiavelli
• Arthashastra
• The Book of 5 Rings (Miyamoto Musashi)
• Seven War machine Classics
• Dream Pool Essays by Shen Kuo
• Huolongjing past Liu Bowen
• Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
• Epitoma rei militaris by Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
• Guerrilla Warfare by Che Guevara
• On Protracted State of war by Mao Zedong
• On War by Carl von Clausewitz
• Records of the Grand Historian
• The 33 Strategies of State of war
• Thirty-Six Stratagems
• The Utility of Force by General Sir Rupert Smith
• Seven Pillars of Wisdom past T. Due east. Lawrence
• Bansenshukai
• Infanterie Greift An by Erwin Rommel
• History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
• The Jewish State of war by Josephus
• The Science of Military Strategy
• The Influence of Sea Power upon History by Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan

References [edit]

Citations [edit]

1. ^ Smith (1999), p. 216.
2. ^ Giles, Lionel The Fine art of War by Sun Tzu – Special Edition. Special Edition Books. 2007. p. 62.
3. ^ Lewis (1999), p. 604.
4. ^ ^{a b c d eastward f} Gawlikowski & Loewe (1993), p. 447.
5. ^ Mair (2007), pp. 12–13.
6. ^ Mair (2007), p. 9.
7. ^ ^{a b} Mair (2007), p. 10.
8. ^ ^{a b} Gawlikowski & Loewe (1993), p. 448.
9. ^ ^{a b c} Gawlikowski & Loewe (1993), p. 449.
10. ^ Mark Edward Lewis (2005), quoted in Mair (2007), p. 18.
11. ^ Sunzi (2009). Shawn Conners (ed.). Sunday-tzu ping fa [The art of war]. Translated by Lionel Giles (Archetype ed.). El Paso, TX: El Paso Norte Printing. ISBN978-ane-934255-15-5. OCLC 433665014.
12. ^ ^{a b} Griffith, Samuel B. The Illustrated Art of War. 2005. Oxford University Press. pp. 17, 141–43.
13. ^ ^{a b} McCready, Douglas. Learning from Lord's day Tzu, Military Review, May–June 2003."Learning from Sun Tzu". Archived from the original on 2011-x-11. Retrieved 2009-12-xix .
14. ^ Interview with Dr. William Duiker, Chat with Sonshi
15. ^ Forbes, Andrew ; Henley, David (2012). The Illustrated Art of War: Lord's day Tzu. Chiang Mai: Cognoscenti Books. ASIN B00B91XX8U
16. ^ Army, U. South. (1985). Military History and Professional person Evolution. U. S. Army Command and Full general Staff Higher, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: Combat Studies Establish. 85-CSI-21 85.
17. ^ "Messages".
18. ^ "Department of Military Instruction Job Opportunities | United States Armed forces University W Point". westpoint.edu . Retrieved 2020-06-05 .
19. ^ United States Military Posture for FY1989 (Washington, DC: U.South. Government Printing Office, 1989), v–six, 93–94.
20. ^ "Chinese Military machine Strategist Sun Tzu Reveals Secrets to Success | Leaderonomics".
21. ^ Yevgenia Albats and Catherine A. Fitzpatrick. The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Concur on Russian federation – Past, Present, and Time to come. 1994. ISBN 0-374-52738-v, chapter Who was behind perestroika?
22. ^ "Search Results | book of swindles | Columbia University Press". Columbia University Printing.
23. ^ Michaelson, Gerald. "Sun Tzu: The Fine art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules." Avon, MA: Adams Media, 2001
24. ^ McNeilly, Mark. "Sun Tzu and the Art of Business : Six Strategic Principles for Managers. New York:Oxford University Press, 1996.
25. ^ Krause, Donald 1000. "The Fine art of War for Executives: Aboriginal Knowledge for Today'due south Concern Professional person." New York: Berkley Publishing Grouping, 1995.
26. ^ Kammerer, Peter. "The Art of Negotiation." Due south Red china Morning Mail service (Apr 21, 2006) p. 15
27. ^ Jeffrey, D (2010). "A Instructor Diary Study to Utilise Ancient Art of War Strategies to Professional Development". The International Periodical of Learning. 7 (3): 21–36.
28. ^ Barnhizer, David. The Warrior Lawyer: Powerful Strategies for Winning Legal Battles Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Bridge Street Books, 1997.
29. ^ Balch, Christopher D., "The Art of War and the Art of Trial Advocacy: Is At that place Common Footing?" (1991), 42 Mercer L. Rev. 861–73
30. ^ Beirne, Martin D. and Scott D. Marrs, The Fine art of War and Public Relations: Strategies for Successful Litigation
31. ^ Pribetic, Antonin I., "The Trial Warrior: Applying Sunday Tzu'southward The Art of War to Trial Advocacy" Apr 21, 2007
32. ^ Solomon, Samuel H., "The Art of War: Pursuing Electronic Evidence as Your Corporate Opportunity"
33. ^ "The 48 Laws of Ability by Robert Greene". Penguin Random House Canada . Retrieved 2020-10-27 .
34. ^ Lauletta, Tyler. "Pecker Belichick explains how advice from Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War' helped build the Patriots dynasty". Business Insider . Retrieved 2020-06-05 .
35. ^ "Put crafty Belichick's patriot games downwards to the fine fine art of state of war". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2005-02-04. Retrieved 2020-06-05 .
36. ^ July 2011, Celso de Campos Jr 01 (July 2011). "Luiz Felipe Scolari: One-on-One". fourfourtwo.com . Retrieved 2020-06-05 .
37. ^ Winter, Henry (June 29, 2006). "Mind games reach new high every bit Scolari studies art of war". Irish Independent.
38. ^ "Bud Trick: Lord's day-tzu: If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If every bit matched, fight, and if not dissever and reevaluate". world wide web.quotes.net . Retrieved 2020-06-05 .
39. ^ Die Another Day (2002) - IMDb , retrieved 2020-06-05
40. ^ Globe, Boston. "Hey, if Tony's reading it, it'south got to be good". baltimoresun.com . Retrieved 2020-06-05 .
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Sources [edit]

• Gawlikowski, Krzysztof; Loewe, Michael (1993). "Sun tzu ping fa 孫子兵法". In Loewe, Michael (ed.). Early on Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide. Berkeley, CA: Society for the Study of Early Cathay; Institute of Eastward Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. pp. 446–55. ISBN978-1-55729-043-4.
• Graff, David A. (2002). Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900. Warfare and History. London: Routledge. ISBN978-0415239554.
• Griffith, Samuel (2005). Sun Tzu: The Illustrated Art of State of war. New York: Oxford University Printing. ISBN978-0195189995.
• Lewis, Marker Edward (1999). "Warring States Political History". In Loewe, Michael; Shaughnessy, Edward (eds.). The Cambridge History of Aboriginal China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 587–650. ISBN978-0-521-47030-viii.
• Mair, Victor H. (2007). The Art of State of war: Sun Zi's Military Methods. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN978-0-231-13382-1.
• Smith, Kidder (1999). "The Military Texts: The Sunzi". In de Bary, Wm. Theodore (ed.). Sources of Chinese Tradition: From Primeval Times to 1600, Volume i (2nd ed.). New York: Columbia University Printing. pp. 213–24. ISBN978-0-231-10938-3.
• Yuen, Derek G. C. (2014). Deciphering Sun Tzu: How to Read 'The Fine art of War' . Oxford Academy Press. ISBN978-0199373512.
• Вєдєнєєв, Д. В.; Гавриленко, О. А.; Кубіцький, С. О. (2017). Остроухова, В. В. (ed.). Еволюція воєнного мистецтва: у two ч.

External links [edit]

• The Art of State of war at Standard Ebooks
• The Art of State of war Chinese-English bilingual edition, Chinese Text Projection
• The Fine art of War at Project Gutenberg translated by Lionel Giles (1910)
• The Art of War at Project Gutenberg translated (with Chinese text) by Lionel Giles (1910)
• The Book of State of war at Project Gutenberg translated by East.F. Calthrop (1908)
• The Art of War public domain audiobook at LibriVox (English and Chinese original available)
• Sun Tzu's Fine art of State of war at Sonshi (archive.today) Alternative link
• Dominicus Tzu and Information Warfare at the Institute for National Strategic Studies of National Defense Academy
• 11 The 9 Situations | The Fine art of War by Lord's day Tzu (Animated)
• The Art of War illustrated version, on Theoriq.com

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