WU AUTHOR · MILITARY ART AND SCIENCE · EARLY WORKS TO 1800
孙武 (Sun Tzu)
Also known as: 孙子, Sun-Tzu
孙武（前545年—前470年或前496年）妫姓，孙氏，名武，字长卿，春秋时期齐国人，陈胡公的直系后代，著名军事家、政治家，兵家代表人物。兵书《孙子兵法》的作者，后人尊称为孙子、兵圣、东方兵圣。
SUN TZU BELIEVED THAT EVEN BEFORE CONSIDERING A CONfrontation - for whatever purpose - it is essential to Calculate a complete analysis of the situation.
— from The Art of Strategy, 2008
Most acclaimed
The Art of Strategy
2008
Game theory means rigorous strategic thinking. It's the art of anticipating your opponent's next moves, knowing full well that your rival is trying to do the same thing to you. Though parts of game theory involve simple common sense, much is counterintuitive, and it can only be mastered by developing a new way of seeing the world. Using a diverse array of rich case studies―from pop culture, TV, movies, sports, politics, and history―the authors show how nearly every business and personal interaction has a game-theory component to it. Are the winners of reality-TV contests instinctive game theorists? Do big-time investors see things that most people miss? What do great poker players know that you don't? Mastering game theory will make you more successful in business and life, and this lively book is the key to that mastery.
The Art Of War
"Absorb this book, and you can throw out all those contemporary books about management leadership." -Newsweek "A must-read. I have spent a week in this book and I love it. Really well done." —The European Center of Military History The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise written by Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician. The text is composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is commonly known to be the definitive work on military strategy and tactics of its time. It has been the most famous and influential of China's Seven Military Classics, and for the last two thousand years it remained the most important military treatise in Asia, where even the common people knew it by name. Sun Tzu believed war to be an essential wrongdoing that must be got rid of whenever it can be. The war should be fought fleetingly to reduce economic decline. Sun Tzu harped on the significance of placement in military tactics. The planning to position an army must be dependent on the stipulations in the physical surroundings and the subjective thoughts of various militants in those conditions. He believed that strategy cannot be considered as planning with respect to glancing through a previously decided list. It is better represented by the fact that it needs speedy and suitable reactions to altering situations. Planning gives results in restrained surroundings. But in case of an altering environment, similar plans come in each other's ways and give rise to undesired outcomes. It has had an influence on Eastern and Western military thinking, business tactics, legal strategy and beyond.
The Book of War
"For two thousand years, Sun-tzu's The Art of Warfare was the indispensable volume of warcraft. Although his work is the first known analysis of war and warfare, Sun-tzu struck upon a thoroughly modern concept: "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." Karl von Clausewitz, the canny military theorist who famously declared that war is a continuation of politics by other means, also claims paternity of the notion "total war." His is the magnum opus of the era of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars.". "Now these two great military minds are made to share the same tent, metaphorically speaking, in The Book of War." "Military writer Ralph Peters has written a new Introduction for this Modern Library edition."--BOOK JACKET.