Scott Boorman (Connecticut Yale University)

Three Faces of Sun Tzu

Analyzing Sun Tzu's 'Art of War' - A Manual on Strategy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes the three faces of Sun Tzu's Art of War: one anchored in Warring States China, a second in world military history, and a third in 21st century contexts like cyber warfare. The author identifies Sun Tzu's limitations and blind spots relevant to managing strategic competitions with Sun-Tzu-inspired adversaries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 558
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 155mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 838g
• ISBN-13: 9781108456982
• ISBN-10: 1108456987
• Artikelnr.: 67792604

Autorenporträt

Scott Boorman is Professor of Sociology at Yale University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Background: historical and textual
Preliminaries
2. Strategist should be calculating
strategist should be cheap
3. Strategist should find advantage
4. Strategist should enact stratagems & formlessness
5. Strategist should make a situation's natural dynamics work for her
6. Strategist should have an accurate grasp of the significant information
7. Strategist should manage the interfaces
Conclusion: demystifying Sun Tzu and future directions. Indices.