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Ep 75: Toshi Yoshihara on Sun Tzu (New Makers of Modern Strategy #5)

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Sunza's Art of War Reflects the Views of a New Professional Class

Sunza's Art of War was designed to make way for a pro-warist professional military general. The art of war was a way to make way essentially for this new professional class that would be needed to wage this new kind of war, according to one hypothesis. And so you needed somebody who spent their entire professional careers focused on war and warfare as the states were able to feel these much larger armies.

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