What to Do if You're Playing Magic in Confirmations of the Land

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Land worth fighting for is resources, or it uclagos slon gold is loke, goldenstone. If there's the ceeor, if you're at like distances between each other, nobody has an advantage. You got to take the high ground. And then dead lands is, you only survive there if you battle ferociously. A never taken lightly is if you're deep inside en enemy territory. Difficult to cross is when it's more about land.

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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