Three Faces of Sun Tzu: Analyzing Sun Tzu's Art of War, A Manual on Strategy

Boorman, Scott

ISBN 10: 110847103X / ISBN 13: 9781108471039

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Three Faces of Sun Tzu: Analyzing Sun Tzu's Art of War, A Manual on Strategy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 110847103X
• ISBN 13: 9781108471039
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Sun Tzu's Art of War is widely regarded as the most influential military & strategic classic of all time. Through 'reverse engineering' of the text structured around 14 Sun Tzu 'themes,' this rigorous analysis furnishes a thorough picture of what the text actually says, drawing on Chinese-language analyses, historical, philological, & archaeological sources, traditional commentaries, computational ideas, and strategic & logistics perspectives. Building on this anchoring, the book provides a unique roadmap of Sun Tzu's military and intelligence insights and their applications to strategic competitions in many times and places worldwide, from Warring States China to contemporary US/China strategic competition and other 21st century competitions involving cyber warfare, computing, other hi-tech conflict, espionage, and more. Simultaneously, the analysis offers a window into Sun Tzu's limitations and blind spots relevant to managing 21st century strategic competitions with Sun-Tzu-inspired adversaries or rivals.

About the Author

Scott Boorman is Professor of Sociology at Yale University.