Protracted Game: A Wei-Ch'I Interpretation of Maoist Revolutionary Strategy - Softcover

Boorman, Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195014936 ISBN 13: 9780195014938

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1971

Synopsis

While still a teenager, Boorman wrote The Protracted Game : A Wei-Ch’i Interpretation of Maoist Revolutionary Strategy (1969), an analysis of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. He shows that the U.S. thought it was playing Chess, while in fact the game was Wei-Ch’i (also known as Go). He systematically explores the similarity between the military strategies of Chinese Communist insurgency and the Chinese board game wei-ch’i, in contrast to parallel U.S. analyses of the same events. Boorman also argues that wei-chi’s analysis of a strategic system presents a more sophisticated and flexible form of game theory than the traditional western models of strategic choice.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0195014936
• ISBN 13: 9780195014938
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256