Sun Tzu in the West: The Anglo-American Art of War
Peter Lorge
Bok 2022
| Utgitt | Cambridge University Press , 2022
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (300 p.) : ill
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | It would be hard to overstate the impact of Sun Tzus The Art of War on military thought. Beyond its impact in Asia, the work has been required reading in translation for US military personnel since the Cold War. Sun Tzu has been interpreted as arguing for Indirect Strategy in contrast to Direct Strategy, the latter idea stemming from Ancient Greece. This is a product of twentieth-century Western thinking, specifically that of Liddell Hart, who influenced Samuel B. Griffiths 1963 translation of Sun Tzu. This reading of Sun Tzu is, however, very different from Chinese interpretations. Western strategic thinkers have used Sun Tzu as a foil or facilitator for their own thinking, inadvertently engaging the Western military tradition and propagating misleading generalizations about Chinese warfare.
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| Emner | Military Art And Science
Technology & Engineering |
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| ISBN | 1-108-90268-5. - 1-108-90451-3. - 1-108-90555-2
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