I may be one of the last people on Earth to read this thing, but I'm almost through the Introduction section and hope someone else has in our group has already read it...
What got me to go ahead and read it was this passage that caught me on the flip through... *"When Sun Tzu wrote, ware had become a dangerous business; the recouse when other means had failed. The best policy, he says, is 'to atack the enemy's plans'; the next best to disrupt his alliances, for 'to subdue the enemy's army without fighting is the acme of skill'. This indicates his perception that war was no longer a regulated pastime, but the ultimate instrument of statecraft."* I am personally curious to how similar his methods were to Caesar's. Caesar could'nt have read Sun Tzu due to the supposed time period of its creation... but Napoleon did.... -- gnothe se auton --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Memphis Freethought Alliance" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/memphisfreethoughtalliance?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
