{"title":"Sun Tzu","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Art of War is traditionally attributed to Sun Tzu, a general placed by custom around the fifth century BCE, in a period when the Chinese states fought almost without pause. Scholars still argue over the man and the date. What is not in doubt is the book, which is the shortest and hardest-headed thing ever written on conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis argument runs against instinct. The best victory is the one you were never forced to fight for. Know the ground before you commit to it. Know the other side better than they know themselves. Refuse the battle you cannot afford, however much your pride wants it. Deception, timing, supply, morale, and the handling of information all matter more than courage on the day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty-five centuries later it is read by people who will never see a battlefield: anyone who tenders, negotiates, competes, or runs a crew. The benefit is immediate. You stop swinging at every fight you are offered.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"mastery-of-the-military-mind-sun-tzu-napoleon-hardcover","title":"Mastery of the Military Mind: Sun Tzū on The Art of War \u0026 The Officer's Manual, Napoleon's Maxims of War (Hardcover)","description":"\u003ch2\u003eStrategy Beyond the Battlefield\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFour texts, two and a half thousand years apart, on one question: how does a mind hold under pressure?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSun Tzu, \u003cem\u003eThe Art of War.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e All thirteen chapters, from Laying Plans through Weak Points and Strong, Maneuvering, Terrain, The Nine Situations, The Attack by Fire, and The Use of Spies. Written around 500 BC and still the most efficient book on strategy in existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNapoleon, \u003cem\u003eMaxims of War.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e All seventy-eight maxims, each followed by its own explanatory note, covering the movement of armies, supply, timing, retreat, morale, and the handling of subordinates. Napoleon's position in one line: victory belongs to those of unbreakable perseverance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA General's Letters to His Son on Minor Tactics\u003c\/em\u003e (1918).\u003c\/strong\u003e Published anonymously in the last year of the First World War by a serving general who had watched young officers arrive at the front with months of training where there should have been years. Written as practical problems to be solved, not theory to be admired.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Selections from the emperor's private notes on governing himself, because inner discipline is the part the tactical manuals assume you already have.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForeword: \u003cem\u003eThe Centurions of Rome.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen's address at West Point, in which he works through the Roman centurions named in the New Testament, from the officer at Capernaum to Cornelius and Julius, and argues that the soldier's tradition was chosen deliberately.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eRead It Through Your Own Situation\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBusiness, leadership, negotiation, competition, sport, crisis management, military service, or personal discipline. The ancient questions arrive already familiar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere is the real weakness? What information is missing? When is speed the advantage, and when does patience become the power? Are you reacting to your opponent, or shaping the conditions they have to act inside?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSun Tzu's answer is in the epigraph: know the enemy and know yourself and you need not fear the result of a hundred battles; know yourself but not the enemy and every victory will cost you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Edition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrated, with a glossary of roughly seventy military terms defined for the modern reader, from ambuscade and bivouac to commissariat and celerity, so the historic language stays readable without being rewritten. Hardcover, built to be kept on the desk rather than the shelf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe battlefield changes. 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