Never Get Stuck in a Siege

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The art of deception is when you can feign incapacity, and when employing troops appear to have no such plans. When close seem to them to be far away, and when far away seem near all of the time. The if you're fighting an enemy who seems like they aren't eating, it's cause they're theyd,. probly cause they're weak, and you should attack them. Make sure your people can eat.

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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