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War From the Ground Up: Twenty-First Century Combat as Politics (Conflict Classics)
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Conor McCarthy • 2 cards
In a recent essay, Zhao gives us some insights about how the tianxia worldview emerged in the transition from the Shang to the Zhou dynasty at the beginning of the first millennium BCE. A limited power that succeeded a much larger empire, the Zhou dynasty devised a worldview to control the larger entity by making global politics a priority over the
... See morePrasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
Authority: Good warriors make others come to them, and do not go to others. This is the principle of emptiness and fullness of others and self. When you induce opponents to come to you, then their force is always empty; as long as you do not go to them, your force is always full. Attacking emptiness with fullness is like throwing stones on eggs. (Z
... See moreRobert Greene • The 48 Laws Of Power (The Modern Machiavellian Robert Greene Book 1)
Commanded by the resourceful General Vo Nguyen Giap, the Viet Minh struck the French only when they were vulnerable, usually in well-prepared ambushes, and preferably at night.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
No one can anticipate everything that might happen. Sensing possibilities, though, is better than having no sense at all of what to expect. Sun Tzu seeks sense—even common sense—by tethering principles, which are few, to practices, which are many. He fits the mix to the moment, as if setting sound levels on a synthesizer, or color combinations on a
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