Strategy

[HobbeBrain]

Overrated. But that's just me, it seems.

Kangaroos?

 

[Walker]

The Art of War does indeed transcends the ages.

T'was a joke.

Really, though? Out of all of these guys, only Mao came AFTER air power became a concern. So at least some of what they have to say is outdated solely on that basis, or at least needs to be adapted.

Mahan was writing... like right before WWI or so. Air power was JUST coming into existence in his lifetime, and I'm pretty sure he did all his major writing before 1903-- carriers didn't even enter into his faintest dreams. And Mahan is the latest of them, aside from Mao. Clausewitz was writing in a time when cavalry was still of critical importance, for crying out loud. (Note: Okay, yeah, cavalry is critically important again, but it's TOTALLY AND UTTERLY DIFFERENT NOW.)

 

[Tsuyu]

"If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight."

Sun Tzu said that, and I think he knows a little bit more about fighting than you guys; after all he invented it. Then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honour. And then, he used all of his fighting money to buy two of each animal on earth. He then herded them onto a little boat and beat the crap outta them. And that's why any-time more than two animals are together in the same place it is called a Tzu.

Unless its a farm.

 

[TRA Rotid]

The Art of War does indeed transcends the ages.

T'was a joke.

Of course, I was actually replying more to Walker than your post.

 

[Walker]

Of course, I was actually replying more to Walker than your post.

Sorry, man, I didn't realize that was directed to me, 'cause it quoted Tsuyu...

As far as I know, it basically talks about knowing your opponent and then basing your strategy on that. When it comes to battlefield it's not, obviously, up to date anymore.

Yeah, I don't remember, because it's been awhile since I read Art of War. All I do remember is that Sun Tzu was way the hell easier to read than von Clausewitz, who was pretty much hell.