The Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy by Stephen F. Kaufman, Tuttle Publishing

by Stephen F. Kaufman

Learn the strategy and philosophy of China's most celebrated military theorist with this highly readable and informative edition of The Art of War. The Art of War by Sun Tzu is the best known and most highly regarded book on military strategy ever written. Although its wisdom is from ancient China, ...

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Stephen F Kaufman is an acknowledged master speaker and educator, and a teacher of ancient wisdom made practical for contemporary global society. He is the author of "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and "Musashi's Book of Five Rings."

An authority on negotiation, management, motivation training, personal development, and spiritual ascension technique, he provides functional solutions that empower audiences to turn all challenges, real and imaginary, emanating from the worlds of business, military, and personal endeavor into viable opportunity by demonstrating definitive working techniques that bring about advantageous results.

Reviews

[Ariayuda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Simple and make me understand the strategy with ease,
the words just straight to the main purpose of the passage.

[Kai Ling, Phoebe · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book offers an interesting interpretation of Sun Tzu’s Art of War. It is a good primer into understanding the original context in which the teachings were given, during the time of the Chinese warlords, where force, schemes and masculinity were necessary. Some principles are still relevant for today’s leadership - I especially like the part about winning the respect and trust of one’s people. However, I wonder about the accuracy of this interpretation since the author is an American practitioner of a Japanese martial arts, with very little direct links to the Chinese original text. Reading this book gives me the curiosity to explore the original text.

Noticed some typing errors in the book which made reading it a distraction.

[Dan]

I'm really unfamiliar with the site and maybe I don't need to keep adding this disclaimer: I'm less properly reviewing the book and more commenting briefly on what it meant to me.

I really don't remember why I read this book. Maybe I'd heard about it in the news; alternatively, it was a time in my life I was "doing a lot of my own research" and spending a lot of time on Wikipedia; maybe I was just super into information control based on other books I've reviewed here. I remember knowing I wanted to read The Art of War and picked this translation because it was held out as simple, direct, and maybe literal. I think I remember the book itself talking about basically, y'know, "This is a book about war, and I translated it to be about war. If you want to apply it to e.g. business, you're free to make your own analogies."

Anyway, this is the first book, contrary to e.g. 1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, maybe etc., that I felt like told me that anything other than 100% honesty and truth could be used to PREVENT war. I think the idea it puts forth is, like, you should be prepared to go to literally go to physical war if you have to insofar as you should be able to counter physical threats, but war is destructive; if I recall, the quote is, "War disrupts the work of 70,000 families." The idea is you should fight wars of ideas or whatever.

If I recall, central to the idea is "the definition of the situation," which is highly important to me in the context of a book I read in short order after this one--The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, which is much more explicitly about, I think, the same thing in the context of especially the work place.

I'm "not a wartime consigliere" or whatever, but it's important to remember quite what's at stake. If I may, I feel like a lot of people at least in my immediate surroundings in the US have a real "work hard, play hard" mentality where all they have to do is get very physically active and materially productive, ????, everything is supposed to go great. All they have to think about about, like, "fuel efficiency" or whatever is how much they pay at the pump, which just makes them competent people, which makes them morally correct, and no one can get mad.

I dunno, maybe I'm being a downer; I just think there's more to it than that.

It's the same thing of, like, they're dimly aware we have a, what $880 billion annual military budget, and that's more than the next 10 countries combined, but they I guess believe in magic that they're not aggressive people if they just put on a happy face when they're 4 wheeling or whatever.

Which I'm not saying they're logically necessarily bad people for that. I'm just saying they're not logically necessarily good people to the extent that they're 100% justified paying people to kill whoever complains.

Am I mad? I'm not trying to come off as mad. It's just frustrating.

I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed. Let's get a hand in.

[Aaron Mikulsky · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Art of War, interpreted by Stephan F. Kaufman, was written by Sun Tzu, which is the pen name of Sun Wu, allegedly a Chinese nobleman and mathematician who lived in the sixth century B.C. The Art of War has been translated and interpreted by a plethora of writers and historians, from Prince Machiavelli to James Clavell. This author, Stephan F. Kaufman, is the founding father of American Karate, long-time student of oriental military philosophy, and author of a number of books on the topic.

It was believed by Sun Tzu that victory is won long before confrontation and that skilled warriors observe, calculate, outwit, and outmaneuver the adversary, and in so doing prevent the destruction brought on by battle, a situation of last resort. Sun Tzu's blueprint for battlefield strategy is relevant to everyday situations. The book comprises thirteen chapters, each of which can be formulated and interpreted in response to any challenging situation a leader may encounter.

My favorite quote is: “The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‘We did it ourselves’” - Lao-Tzu

Taoism, Gestalt psychology, and many other teachings stress the importance of clearing one's thoughts and staying completely in the here and now, which seems contrary to the constant management of intelligence that is inherent in any successful campaign. I struggle intellectually to figure this all out - this book stretched my mind.

The best lesson that I can take away from this book is to continue the quest for understanding, to question, and to be open to new ideas and experiences. When one becomes stagnant in thought, in position, or in tactics, one becomes predictable and weak. We must continuously seek balance in all activities, and balance is ever elusive and fluid. Effective leadership constantly seeks information and assessment for maximum advantage.

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

“The Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy” by Stephen F. Kaufman is interpreted from Sun Tzu’s ancient military treatise. It consists of thirteen chapters, exploring different military tactics such as deception, war planning, mindset, etc. Kaufman’s interpretation of “The Art of War” is very straightforward and easy to read; he packed all 13 chapters to just around 100 pages in the book. His wording is easy to understand throughout the book; there is rarely any high-level vocabulary. While reading the book, it is important to know that is is written thousands of years ago, so it is hardly any relatable , but many lessons can be interpret and use in the present too. The use of the word “warlord” is one of the most commonly used words, likely signifying that the book is for military commanders which I'm not is and probably many isn't so I found it kind of weird. Many of the strategies and examples in the core are still relevant in war, such as morale in the army. This could be seen in any warfare, such as the Napoleonic warfare. When I read, I doubt the accuracy of his presentation as he may not be able to fully comprehend the original text.

[Asta Read · Rating 3 out of 5]

Still digest this. There's a part that I agree to disagree.

[Ghoster · Rating 3 out of 5]

There is a lot to learn from here, but as the main topic is the war it is a little bit hard to find relation with the actuality.