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Post by latyrx7 on Dec 14, 2004 22:51:04 GMT -5
[glow=blue,2,000]I've been meaning to read this book forever! Now I'm making a serious attempt on it.
Around 2,000 years ago, China was in turmoil. A series of wars left a third of the population dead and the leaders in search of a new way of governing. Confucius and Lao Tzu had developed their solutions but Sun Tzu's philosophy, born of his direct experience of war and life and death struggle, also gained a popular following amongst the ruling class. In The Art of War, Sun Tzu recommended a strategic method to win that rarely required actual war. Spies, deception, and a correctly organised internal structure were his main tools. If it came to war though, he had detailed insight into its methods and strategies.
In The Art of War, Sun Tzu recommended a strategic method to win that rarely required actual war. Spies, deception, and a correctly organised internal structure were his main tools. If it came to war though, he had detailed insight into its methods and strategies.[/glow]
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Post by X-BOT on Dec 15, 2004 1:20:16 GMT -5
souns cool..now this is obiously before guns were invented..Is this when Karate came about?
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Post by latyrx7 on Dec 15, 2004 10:12:41 GMT -5
[glow=blue,2,000]Around 2,000 years ago....[/glow] [glow=blue,2,000]... and it has little to do with Karata I believe.[/glow]
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Post by The Five on Dec 15, 2004 10:26:30 GMT -5
Nah man Karate is mainly Japanese.. so wrong country.
2000 years ago there wasn't any Kung-fu or what most people think martial arts is. Karate is an adaptation of Kempo... which in turn is an adaptation of one the the original Shaolin styles brought about by an Indian Buddhist priest named Bodhidharma back in 540
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Post by DameJinx on Dec 15, 2004 11:11:25 GMT -5
*gulp*... you know your history Five... WOW!!
I have this book too... I've been trying to read it also, but it's too deep for me atm... I'm only able to read see spot run and books of the like ... so my concentration kinda sucks for a book like the art of war ... but I do have it ;D
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Post by latyrx7 on Dec 15, 2004 21:57:48 GMT -5
[glow=blue,2,000]The Five = Steel... heheh, blowing up his spot. So what made you get the book Jinx?[/glow]
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Post by The Five on Dec 16, 2004 6:40:14 GMT -5
Oi... you're blowing my cover. I actualy seemed to be baffeling you with my knowlage for a minute there.. BAH!!
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Post by DameJinx on Dec 16, 2004 10:03:28 GMT -5
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Post by X-BOT on Dec 16, 2004 22:08:29 GMT -5
I think I'll pick this book up also...how much does it run?
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Post by latyrx7 on Dec 16, 2004 22:26:03 GMT -5
[glow=blue,2,000]4 to 5 miles aday. J/k, depends what version you get, there are a few.[/glow]
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Post by Rainstorm & Squirtle on Dec 17, 2004 9:00:12 GMT -5
How about Zap Brannigan's Big Book of War? (apologies to non viewers of Futurama )
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Post by DameJinx on Dec 17, 2004 10:13:50 GMT -5
I think I'll pick this book up also...how much does it run? I bought mine for about $22 CDN if that is of any help to you X
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Post by X-BOT on Jan 2, 2005 23:19:08 GMT -5
Thanks Jinx..I saw some of it on Yahoo pretty interesting stuff... I really like this entry
Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength.
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Post by Perceptor on Jan 7, 2005 8:43:56 GMT -5
[glow=blue,2,300]Personally I liked the actual way he demonstrated that *any* body of troops, if properly led, could win a battle and behave like soldiers, even if they weren't soldiers to begin with. IIRC he gathered a hundred of the Emperor's Concubines and split them into two groups of fifty to demonstrate his point and had them march in formation. First time it didn't work and the concubines fell about in disarray and laughter, so he explained his orders precisely to the leaders of the two troups of concubines. When they failed to march properly the second time he had the two leaders of the concubine troupes excecuted on the spot and told the next in line to do it properly. This they did and for the next while the concubines marched around the courtyard in perfect military unison. Pity about the two dead ones!
If you get bored with Sun Tzu you can always read Niccolo Machiavelli's Art of War or 'On War' by Carl von Clausewitz, who gave us the immortal quote: "War is the continuation of politics by other means"[/glow]
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