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"I didn't like this chapter. It just reminded me of trump, because i no knew that from the intro," he says. Eweda: "The way to do that is to only put them in positions where they're going to win." Now we're at attacks with fire. There are five different ways you can se mi iturned t them. Is chapters like, here's how yo here's had a light stuff on fire.

We learn the art of military strategy, deception, and fire from Michael Nylan's 2020 translation of this classic text. We start by going in-depth on the contemporary political references in Nylan's Introduction to this edition, and then we go blow-by-blow and nugget-by-inspirational-nugget through Master Sun's timeless wisdom.

Here's translator Michael Nylan writing about the book for LitHub: "The Art of War is Actually a Manual on How to Avoid It."

Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.

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