What's Your Opponent Doing?

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A lot wos about looking at you are what your opponent is doing. If the enemy soldiers lean on their weapons, they are hungry. Wherever birds gather, the enemy position is unoccupied. The next to confirmations of the land and nine kinds of ground or it's a mix of just about what the dirt like. And then the next bri an, really go to war. I got to salher m pretty good.

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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