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| The relevance of Sun Tzu |
| 2006-10-02 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #5 The reviewer never read the book. |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2006-10-02 19:28 |
| #4 moose, This thing was so backward from reality I thought it was scrappleface and deleted my comments. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-10-02 18:58 |
| #3 Analysis of Sun Tzu almost invariably get the whole concept wrong. They look at snippets of what he wrote out of context. The reality was that Sun Tzu was given a mission: to come up with some practical means for his king to conquer all of China. His response was to create military order. 1) No more individual anything. Military units are units. They move as units, and fight in units, not individual combat. This type organization is still used today. 2) All military plans will be created using the same format, a format created to include everything a military commander and unit need to know prior to doing anything. From the smallest to the largest, all units will use this format. With these two things alone, unit organization and planning according to a standardized format, Sun Tzu turned his king's army of individual soldiers into an unstoppable force. Even after the empire had been created, Sun Tzu continued to advocate standardization as a way of keeping the new empire together. In just the life of that first emperor, the written language was standardized from dozens to just Mandarin, and the same weights and measures were used throughout China, a major boon to business. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-10-02 14:38 |
| #2 Book review? Political drivel, is more like it. Anything to get one's name in print. Come to think of it, why am I here, again? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2006-10-02 06:35 |
| #1 "Dmitry Shlapentokh, PhD, is associate professor of history at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Indiana University South Bend" I was shocked, SHOCKED to see the authors "job". |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2006-10-02 05:41 |