Art Of War By Suntzu and Other Military Treatises

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Topic started by Traveller (@ globalb3.citicorp.com) on Tue Jul 31 15:01:11 .


The Classical Treatises on Military are


1. Art Of War By Suntzu.

2. Book of 5 Rings.

3. The Prince By Machiavelli.

These treatises are used by the American Business Strategists for New Projects.

Please tell me whether there are any more
Classics.
Bye,
Traveler

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Arthashastra by Chanakya aka Kautilya may also qualify as a treatise on Rajathanthiram.

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36 chinese strategies or something similar.
Try the unorthodox warrior by thomas cleary? this is a translation of more military strategy from japan/china. The campaigns of Napoleon by David Chandler.

Applications to business are merely gimmicks to make more $.

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Traveller,

Since you listed The Prince by Machiavelli as book about warfare, I presume your connotation is a little wider encompassing statecraft rather than just warfare.

So I will include other works like,

-The Republic by Plato

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...975400-8656610

-The Analects of Confucius in parts of which he deals with the role of the state and the duty of the Kings also.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/103-1975400-8656610

Of course we have any number of works in India in which the role of a good King and state are mentioned, icluding the Thirukural.

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On War by Carl Von Clausewitz is of course the most famous western classic.

In English:
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http://www.clausewitz.com/CWZHOME/On_War/ONWARTOC.html

In the Original German:
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http://www.clausewitz.com/CWZHOME/VomKriege/VKTOC.htm

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Athenian writer Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War (c.400 B.C.) is the only other 'western' classic on war and strategy.

http://classics.mit.edu/Thucydides/pelopwar.html

But von Clausewitz is considered the strategist beyond compare in the west.

Here is 'AN INSTRUCTOR'S GUIDE TO TEACHING CLAUSEWITZ' from the National War College in the US.

http://www.clausewitz.com/CWZHOME/Ka...assNotes3.html

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Here are some links on the Arthashastra.


Kautilya's Arthashastra (1915 Shamasastry translation)

http://www.mssc.edu/projectsouthasia/history/primarydocs/Arthashastra/

Indian History Sourcebook:
Kautilya:
from The Arthashastra, c. 250 BCE

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/kautilya1.html

Kautilya : The Arthashastra /edited by L.N. Rangarajan

http://www.vedamsbooks.com/no19625.htm

The Art of Governance
An Extract from Kautilya's Arthashastra
Translated by R.Shamasastry

http://www.indiaworld.co.in/subscribe/rec/stories/july21-99exarth.html

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Gents pls do not limit this to these cultures only there is a queen unzinga of angola that defeated the portuguese using brilliant tactics..also an amerindian named uraca in panama made mince meat of the spaniards and other troops.also where is mao and Giap of vietnam..Limitations and ethnocentric views can be very costly in todays world..ask the soldiers who experienced the sting of these individuals..How about the Zulu king..Nuff said..Tis a good site pls expand in an inclusive way for the benefit of the serious intelligent researcher..The great ones in this area do not come out of war colleges,need proof?

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some more "treatises"

1) The art of war - machiavelli
available in project gutenburg

2)Manual of the Urban Guerilla - Carlos Marighella

3)People's War People's Army - Nguyen Vo Giap

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bj,you are alive..