The Art of War — Sun Tzu
The Art of War Sun Tzu, ~5th century BC Executive Summary The Art of War is thirteen chapters long and has outlasted every empire that ever claimed to have mastered it. Sun Tzu’s argument is not primarily about combat — it is about the conditions that make conflict unnecessary, and the discipline required to create those conditions. The thesis, stated plainly: the supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. Everything else in the book is commentary on how to get there. ...