The Art of War - A Great Wayep

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In the eleventh century, i think m the chinese emperor at the time, included the art of war in this lik collection of works dubbed the seven military classes. So then like schwartzkoff and nocol and powell, or, you know, using it in the nineties,. Now it's on every syllabus if you're at a military college, essentially. And then i just have a list of where it's been reference, gordon gecko, the sopranos, star track, the next generation, the movie battleship a, empires among other things.

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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