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- Three Faces of Sun Tzu
- Frontispiece
- Three Faces of Sun Tzu
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Author’s Note on Chinese-Language Romanization
- Author’s Note on Chinese Characters
- Author’s Note on Online Annex
- Chronology of Chinese History
- List of Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Works
- Introduction
- Background: Historical and Textual
- Preliminaries
- A Strategist Should Be Calculating
- B Strategist Should Be Cheap
- C Strategist Should Find Advantage
- D Strategist Should Enact Stratagems and Formlessness
- E Strategist Should Make a Situation’s Natural Dynamics Work for Her
- F Strategist Should Have an Accurate Grasp of the Significant Information
- G Strategist Should Manage the Interfaces
- Conclusion
- Index A
- Index B
F - Strategist Should Have an Accurate Grasp of the Significant Information
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2024
- Three Faces of Sun Tzu
- Frontispiece
- Three Faces of Sun Tzu
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Author’s Note on Chinese-Language Romanization
- Author’s Note on Chinese Characters
- Author’s Note on Online Annex
- Chronology of Chinese History
- List of Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Works
- Introduction
- Background: Historical and Textual
- Preliminaries
- A Strategist Should Be Calculating
- B Strategist Should Be Cheap
- C Strategist Should Find Advantage
- D Strategist Should Enact Stratagems and Formlessness
- E Strategist Should Make a Situation’s Natural Dynamics Work for Her
- F Strategist Should Have an Accurate Grasp of the Significant Information
- G Strategist Should Manage the Interfaces
- Conclusion
- Index A
- Index B
Summary
At the heart of the versatility of Sun Tzu’s thinking – and a basic reason it is so extraordinarily conducive to digital age applications – stands its unswerving emphasis on the pivotal importance of information as a resource for strategic actors.
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- Three Faces of Sun TzuAnalyzing Sun Tzu's <i>Art of War</i>, A Manual on Strategy, pp. 357 - 422Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024