The Art of War remains the most influential strategy text in East Asian warfare and has influenced both Far Eastern and Western military thinking, business tactics, legal strategy, lifestyles and beyond. For almost 1,500 years it was the lead text in an anthology that was formalized as the Seven Military Classics by Emperor Shenzong of Song in 1080. Each one is devoted to a different set of skills (or "art") related to warfare and how it applies to military strategy and tactics. The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu ("Master Sun", also spelled Sunzi), is composed of 13 chapters.
Michael O’Hanlon is a senior fellow and the director of research in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution an adjunct professor at Columbia, Georgetown, and George Washington Universities and former member of the CIA External Advisory Board.The Art of War ( Chinese: 孫子兵法) is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period (roughly 5th century BC). He also proposes complementing the Pentagon’s set of “4+1” pre‑existing threats with a new “4+1”: biological, nuclear, digital, climatic, and internal dangers. While the United States has been the world’s prominent superpower for over a generation, much American thinking has oscillated between the extremes of isolationist agendas versus interventionist and overly assertive ones.ĭrawing on historical precedents and weighing issues such as Russia’s resurgence, China’s great rise, North Korea’s nuclear machinations, and Middle East turmoil, Michael O’Hanlon presents a well‑researched, ethically sound, and politically viable vision for American national security policy. In the United States, policy makers have tried to articulate similar concepts but have failed to reach a widespread consensus since the Cold War ended.
Russia and China are both believed to have “grand strategies”-detailed sets of national security goals backed by means, and plans, to pursue them. defense, foreign policy, and geopolitics.” -General David Petraeus, U.S. “A masterful examination of past American grand strategy and foreign policies, a compelling, thoughtful, and thought-provoking proposal of a new grand strategy by one of America’s foremost writers and thinkers on U.S. An informed modern plan for post-2020 American foreign policy that avoids the opposing dangers of retrenchment and overextension
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