Is That a Manual for Pickup Artihaha?

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It's got four rules for deploying troops, and then five flaws that a commander can have. There's further like what you shouldn't do in the nine contingencies. One determined to fight to the death can be killed. That's good, because that means that somebody's looking to die, yes?

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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