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Sun Tzu - The Art of War
Personal archives | 05-04-02 | PsyOp

Posted on 05/04/2002 10:10:07 PM PDT by PsyOp

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To: rudy45

ping


63 posted on 12/30/2005 1:36:56 PM PST by rudy45
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To: rudy45

I picked up a paperback copy of this a couple of weeks ago and it is a fairly easy read except that it was translated by an Englishman in 1910 and so the English is a little difficult to decipher at times but still a great read! I wonder how many times W has read it?


64 posted on 12/30/2005 1:49:25 PM PST by Xanadu2112
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To: PsyOp

Bump!


65 posted on 12/30/2005 1:51:02 PM PST by G Larry (Only strict constructionists on the Supreme Court!)
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To: TR Jeffersonian

ping


66 posted on 12/30/2005 1:53:06 PM PST by kalee
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To: PsyOp

Sun Tzu's Art of War is a great handbook for fighting a war, but if you try to apply away from the battlefield, towards the inner workings of government all you will end up with is a Macivellian tyranny.


67 posted on 12/30/2005 1:54:40 PM PST by Paul C. Jesup
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To: XJarhead; You Dirty Rats

Major PING!!!!


68 posted on 12/30/2005 2:04:21 PM PST by GoldwaterChick
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To: Paul C. Jesup

What about applying it to business? I see SOME parallels, but obviously we can't apply everything.


69 posted on 12/30/2005 2:04:32 PM PST by rudy45
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To: PsyOp

Thanks. Which translation are you quoting from?


70 posted on 12/30/2005 2:07:38 PM PST by rudy45
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To: Lazamataz

Sounds like Zawahiri (???) But for sure it sounds like the MSM too--"Get news out on your terms and you may win world approval" (Especially if it's all lies!)


71 posted on 12/30/2005 2:09:06 PM PST by GoldwaterChick
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To: rudy45
What about applying it to business?

If you treat business like war, you will soon have real bloodshed between companies.

72 posted on 12/30/2005 2:30:49 PM PST by Paul C. Jesup
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To: Squantos
I picked up a copy of "Discourses Upon the First Ten Books of Titus Livy - text of the work by Niccolo Machiavelli" today

The Discourses is a great book

73 posted on 12/30/2005 3:11:40 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (A planned society is most appealing to those with the hubris to think they will be the planners)
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To: Lazamataz
"Mobility is better than fortification."

Unless you are proceeding through a kill zone.

74 posted on 12/30/2005 3:22:42 PM PST by verity (The MSM is a National disgrace.)
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To: Squantos

Chusingura, the 47 Ronin.


75 posted on 12/30/2005 3:28:18 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: SauronOfMordor; tet68

Man ya'll diggin up old stuff tonight !....LOL !

Great works.......Ya'll Stay safe I have to run some errands !

Will check back later.....


76 posted on 12/30/2005 3:43:53 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: PsyOp
When orders are consistently trustworthy and observed, the relationship of a commander with his troops is satisfactory.

I can't find this saying, or a similar one, in the Giles/Clavell edition. Is it there? If so, which chapter? Thanks.

77 posted on 12/30/2005 8:24:01 PM PST by rudy45
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To: Squantos
"To: Lazamataz
"Mobility is better than fortification."
Unless you are proceeding through a kill zone.
74 posted on 12/30/2005 3:22:42 PM PST by verity (The MSM is a National disgrace.)

Did I commit a breech of etiquette, i.e., piss on his corn flakes?

78 posted on 12/31/2005 5:50:36 AM PST by verity (The MSM is a National disgrace.)
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To: PsyOp
Nothing on what to do about spy's in your midst?
79 posted on 12/31/2005 5:52:54 AM PST by mware (everyone that doesn't like what America and President Bush has done for Iraq can all go to HELL.")
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To: verity
"Mobility is better than fortification."

Unless you are proceeding through a kill zone.

But is mobility better than fornication?

80 posted on 01/03/2006 6:47:36 AM PST by Lazamataz (I have a Chinese family renting an apartment from me. They are lo mein tenants.)
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