Understanding Sun Tzu's Art of War - Full Documentary
Understanding Sun Tzu's Art of War - Full Documentary Few writers from ancient times enjoy the same level of recognition as Sun Tzu, the famous philosopher and general from ancient China. Quotes from his timeless treatise the "Art of War" appear in popular culture and the whole book is frequently studied by business and military students around the world. Sun Tzu's "Art of War" presents thirteen chapters that describe how to factor in all important variables when trying to win a conflict. The principles can be applied to military problems as well as the challenges of the marketplace or even personal struggles. The precise dates of the birth and death of Sun Tzu are not known, but history has verified his existence around the year 500 B.C.E. in China. Born of Sun Ping, a senior military officer in the state of Qi, Sun Tzu grew up with an education focusing on military affairs. At the time, it was common for Chinese generals to write about their philosophies of war, but it has been the work of Sun Tzu that has survived the ages. What made his "Art of War" so compelling that it is quite literally still in print 2,500 years after it was first inked onto strips of bamboo? Part of the resilience of Sun Tzu's ideas comes from his success as a general. Ancient China was a complex chessboard of highly civilized yet warring states, and Sun Tzu enjoyed a respectable career within this challenging environment. Sun Tzu was in the employ of He Lu, the ruler of the state of Wu, who made him a general of the kingdom. In this role, Sun Tzu participated in numerous campaigns. His successes included the destruction of the Yue state, the territorial expansion of Wu, and the occupation of the city of Ying. His successful application of his strategic thinking surely lent his literary work strength. His "Art of War" is not limited to narrow military concepts such as positioning soldiers on the field. Sun Tzu took into account all the forces acting upon a state. War is a tool of the state, and as Sun Tzu wrote, "War is a matter of vital importance to the state; a matter of life or death, the road either to survival or to ruin." But this crucial element of state power could not operate independently of diplomacy, politics, economics, geography, and philosophy. Each chapter in the "Art of War" explores these and other factors in detail and teaches that the application of military force must be used with a multidisciplinary approach. Geography is certainly given great emphasis because the actual land that is being fought over underpins military strategy, but it is not the sole consideration for a general. Among the many sage pieces of advice that one can take away from the "Art of War" is Sun Tzu's insistence that war should not be started hastily, with optimistic assumptions, or without good intelligence. The stakes in war are too high for the state to lose, so therefore it must only employ its military tools when it can achieve victory. The economics of warfare is repeatedly stressed by Sun Tzu because of the heavy toll that maintaining an army in the field extracts from its society. War should not be the first tool that a state uses to gain its desired outcomes because it is so expensive. In Sun Tzu's final chapter of his book, he opens with a statement that rings very true today as my own country, the United States, finds itself financing a prolonged war. From Chapter 13 "Use of Spies" Sun Tzu wrote: "Now, when an army of one hundred thousand is raised and dispatched on a distant campaign, the expenses borne by the people together with disbursements of the treasury will amount to a thousand pieces of gold daily. In addition, there will be continuous commotion both at home and abroad, people will be exhausted by the corvee of transport, and the farm work of seven hundred thousand households will be disrupted." Understanding Sun Tzu's Art of War - Full Documentary
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Goddamn baby ads in an otherwise great documentary about applications of Sun Tsu 's teachings in modern warfare
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Documentary about Sun Tzu, 90min long. 70min talking about the US, it's wars and the possible relation with Sun Tzu's book, 20min actually talking about Sun Tzu. Nice job!
Can't wait for that documentary about Buddha that talks mainly about mormons, scientology, cults in the US, etc and barely mentions Siddharta Gautama. -
I read Sun Tzu, pretty cool book
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this isn't sun tzu documentary
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General Westmoreland should have been hung for incompetence, leading men into battle with an enemy that was as stealthy and destructive as termites. These poor bastards, our soldiers, never stood a chance against the Viet-cong. People who say that the war was not fought to be won but to be sustained are full of shit. We wanted to win at all costs, and saying that it was only for drugs and profits is making it sound as if we had a winning strategy but chose not to use it. The North Vietnamese were better and smarter, period, and they were fighting to protect their home turf. We were deaf dumb and blind to go against these people, and criminal to boot. The stain of this loss will forever haunt us, because we continue to fuck up the end game despite our past experiences. That is the textbook definition of insanity.
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someone is trying to HIDE an important point by inject those huggie commercials in and overriding the the video
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Why didn't they use something besides the Vietnam war. Such as the American Revolution
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iphone pro tanga lang
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great video but your graphics suck bro.
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THE IMPLICATION TO THE ART OF WAR WAS TO STIR PRIDE WITHIN THE MUTHA FUCKEN HEART AND THAT IS THE WHOLE CONCEPTION TO THE ART OF WAR IT WAS TO STIR PRIDE WITHIN YOUR MUTHA FUCKEN HEART... TRICK...AND PLACE YOU IN DEATH GROUND... MARK...THE ART OF WAR IS THE ART THE MUTHA FUCKEN HEART
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"its a complete mess" is damn right. it's a wonder the germans fought as well as they did with that kind of command structure.
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at 35:28 theres a bloody ad im paying not to see ads ? what gives ? ripped of bad
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Chu, Wu, Yue - reminds me of Europa Universalis 4 :)
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Thanks for posting.
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leave 'murica out of this, my fucking god...
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The Vietnam War was a tie it was just decided they wasn't worth it no more. So for the people in this documentary get your fucking facts straighten out. America did not loose.
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still, a better love story than twilight.
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USA chess Elo 1400(Hustlers from NEW YORK PARK) vs USSR CHESS ELO 2600 ( BELIAVKSKY, KARPOV, PETROSIAN, TAL, TAIMANOV)
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what the fuck? this video digresses too much into the American-Vietnamese War analogies vis-a-vis the main topic which is understanding Sun Tzu's Art of War.
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Sun Tzu's Art Of War is being applied by Russia in an upgraded version to meet the new needs of 21st Century warfare and to fight an evil ideology of Satan called islam. I will not elaborate for this is a sensitive subject only meant for those who needs to know. Unfortunately the communist leaders of the former Soviet Union did not listen to our Generals and KGB officials on how to fight and defeat both the Americans supported Afghanistan rebels during the Afghanistan War without sending major ground forces except to secure it with thorough air cover. But like WW II it is the initially defeated Americans who learned the lessons of WW II and not the initially victorious Japanese, for the Japanese stuck to the principle of the Battleship Concept but the Americans learned well to shift to the Aircraft Carrier and submarine forces and using only their Battleships as backup.
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