An ancient Chinese treatise on strategy, emphasising deception, positioning, and winning without fighting wherever possible. It remains influential far beyond the military, in business and politics.
Sources for Sun Tzu — The Art of War
Sun Tzu — The Art of War in War & Military Thought
Held in the War & Military Thought chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Tjaneni — An Account of the Battle of Megiddo (−1457)
- Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War (−400)
- Xenophon — Anabasis (The March of the Ten Thousand) (−370)
- Julius Caesar — The Gallic Wars (−50)
- Arrian — The Anabasis of Alexander (150)
- Carl von Clausewitz — On War (1832)
- Antoine-Henri Jomini — The Art of War (1838)