Political PhilosophyBook · -500
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
Thirteen short chapters on terrain, spies, deception and timing, insisting throughout that supreme excellence is breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. Read as often in boardrooms as in staff colleges, which says as much about boardrooms as about the book.
Why you should read this
This ancient Chinese military treatise is written in terse, aphoristic chapters that have made it easy to lift into contexts far beyond warfare, from business strategy to sports coaching. Best for readers who want compact strategic principles rather than a sustained argument.
- Field
- Political Philosophy
- Form
- Non-fiction
- Published
- 500 BCE
- Themes
- StrategyPolitical Philosophy
