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- Herausgeber: ShadowPOET
- Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023
Twenty-Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chinese warfare and military thought. Since that time, all levels of military have used the teaching on Sun Tzu to warfare and cilivzation have adapted these teachings for use in politics, business and everyday life. The Art of War is a book which should be used to gain advantage of opponents in the boardroom and battlefield alike.
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Sun Tzu
The Art of War
Table of contents
The Art of War
LAYING PLANS
WAGING WAR
ATTACK BY STRATAGEM
TACTICAL DISPOSITIONS
ENERGY
WEAK POINTS AND STRONG
MANEUVERING
VARIATION IN TACTICS
THE ARMY ON THE MARCH
TERRAIN
THE NINE SITUATIONS
THE ATTACK BY FIRE
THE USE OF SPIES
The Art of War
By Sun Tzu
LAYING PLANS
Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to theState.
It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account beneglected.
The art of war, then, is governed by five constant factors, to be taken into account in one's deliberations, when seeking to determine the conditions obtaining in thefield.
These are: (1) The Moral Law; (2) Heaven; (3) Earth; (4) The Commander; (5) Method anddiscipline.
5,6. The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger.
Heaven signifies night and day, cold and heat, times andseasons.
Earth comprises distances, great and small; danger and security; open ground and narrow passes; the chances of life anddeath.
The Commander stands for the virtues of wisdom, sincerity, benevolence, courage andstrictness.
By method and discipline are to be understood the marshaling of the armyinitspropersubdivisions,thegraduationsofrankamongtheofficers,the maintenance of roads by which supplies may reach the army, and the control of militaryexpenditure.
These five heads should be familiar to every general: he who knows them will be victorious; he who knows them not willfail.
Therefore, in your deliberations, when seeking to determine the militaryconditions,letthembemadethebasisofacomparison,inthiswise:--
(1) Which of the two sovereigns is imbued with the Morallaw?
Which of the two generals has mostability?
With whom lie the advantages derived from Heaven andEarth?
On which side is discipline most rigorouslyenforced?
Which army isstronger?
On which side are officers and men more highlytrained?
In which army is there the greater constancy both in rewardand
