1088: 2/4 Sun Tzu at Gettysburg: Ancient Military Wisdom in the Modern World, by Bevin Alexander
Image: Duke Huan of Ch`i and Kuan Chung, Spring and Autumn Period. The Spring and Autumn Annals, an ancient Chinese chronicle that has been one of the core Chinese classics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_classics) since ancient times, is the official chronicle of the State of Lu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Lu) , and covers a 241-year period from 722 to 481 BC. It’s the earliest surviving Chinese historical text to be arranged in annals form (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals) . Because it was traditionally regarded as having been compiled by Confucius (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius) (after a claim to this effect by Mencius (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mencius) ), it was included as one of the Five Classics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Classics) of Chinese literature. Sun Tzu at Gettysburg: Ancient Military Wisdom in the Modern World,by Bevin Alexander (https://www.amazon.com/Bevin-Alexander/e/B000APBLK8/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1) Imagine the impact on world history if Robert E. Lee had listened to General Longstreet at Gettysburg and withdrawn to higher ground instead of sending Pickett uphill against the entrenched Union line. Or if Napoléon, at Waterloo, had avoided mistakes he'd never made before. The advice that would have changed the outcome of these crucial battles is found in a book on strategy written centuries before Christ was born. Lee, Napoléon, and Adolf Hitler never read Sun Tzu's The Art of War; the book became widely available in the West only in the mid-twentieth century. As Bevin Alexander shows, however, Sun Tzu's maxims often boil down to common sense in a particularly pure and clear form. The lessons of contemporary military practice, or their own experience, might have guided these commanders to success. It is stunning to see, nonetheless, the degree to which the precepts laid down 2,400 years ago apply to warfare of the modern era. https://www.amazon.com/Sun-Tzu-Gettysburg-Ancient-Military-ebook/dp/B004VBBVJ8/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1612154088&sr=1-1-spell