Ep 75: Toshi Yoshihara on Sun Tzu (New Makers of Modern Strategy #5)
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The Influence of Sun Zhe on Mao
Mao is easily stereotyped and misunderstood if one is thinking of him in some sort of mystical Eastern sense. But the infiltration of the Chinese people's volunteers into Korea in the fall of 1950 is this extraordinary maneuver, right? Hundreds of thousands of troops into the hills undetected. And even when they're detected, you know, MacArthur and his lieutenants fail to recognize what it actually is that they're dealing with.
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