Mark, Thanks for your replies and thoughts.
Are you familiar with Stephen Turnbull's historical work, by any chance? Good stuff. > And if you are curious, my philosophy is that rules of warfare are great, but > only work if: > 1) both sides agree to abide by them; and 2) both sides use the same rule > book. Yes. I think that if one side throws away the Geneva Convention (speaking of present-day events, of course), all "rules" should be off. > To put it into context, while there are some commonalities between Clauswitz, > THE BOOK OF 5 RINGS, Sun-Tzu and other Oriental military philosophy types, > there > are some hell'uva big differences between the way the goals are accomplished. > Helluva difference between A BOOK OF FIVE RINGS and Eiji Yoshikawa, too....still, hints of the "superiority complex" can be seen throughout Yoshikawa's MUSASHI, there's no doubt about it. This indicates the popular culture and folk tradition, and how deeply it was ingrained, in my opinion. Still a *great* fiction novel, though. --Mike
