Three Faces of Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu''s Art of War is widely regarded as the most influential military & strategic classic of all time. Through ''reverse engineering'' of the text structured around 14 Sun Tzu ''themes'' this rigorous analysis furnishes a thorough picture of what the text actually says drawing on Chinese-language analyses historical philological & archaeological sources traditional commentaries computational ideas and strategic & logistics perspectives. Building on this anchoring the book provides a unique roadmap of Sun Tzu''s military and intelligence insights and their applications to strategic competitions in many times and places worldwide from Warring States China to contemporary US/China strategic competition and other 21st century competitions involving cyber warfare computing other hi-tech conflict espionage and more. Simultaneously the analysis offers a window into Sun Tzu''s limitations and blind spots relevant to managing 21st century strategic competitions with Sun-Tzu-inspired adversaries or rivals.