1088: 4/4 Sun Tzu at Gettysburg: Ancient Military Wisdom in the Modern World, by Bevin Alexander
Image: Art of War written on bamboo strips. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Creative_Commons) Attribution 2.0 Generic (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en) license. You are free:to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the workUnder the following conditions :attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. 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Imagine the impact on world history if Robert E. Lee had listened to General Longstreet at Gettysburg and withdrawn to higher ground instead of sending Pickett uphill against the entrenched Union line.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