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Should you read Clausewitz's On War or Sun Tzu's The Art of War?

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Jul 3, 2023 6:19 PM
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Have you accepted the Clausewitzian Trinity of the nature of war as a complex adaptive system into your life?

This triad, or trinity, is a paradoxical relationship “composed of primordial violence, hatred, and enmity... chance and probability... and of its element of subordination, as an instrument of policy.”4 It is paradoxical because while war is an extension of policy—a ratio-nal tendency—it is propelled at times by primordial violence and hatred—irrational tendencies—or by chance.

https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Portals/68/Documents/jfq/jfq-96/JFQ-96_42-49_Cole.pdf?ver=2020-02-07-150502-163#:~:text=This%20triad%2C%20or%20trinity%2C%20is%20a%20paradoxical%20relationship,by%20primordial%20violence%20and%20hatred%E2%80%94irrational%20tendencies%E2%80%94or%20by%20chance.
Jul 3, 2023 6:38 PM
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I suggest something more modern like Unrestricted Warfare. My uncle had this book when he was staying in North Korea.
Jul 3, 2023 6:39 PM
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I unironically watched a video that read the entire book of The Art of War.

I would do it again.



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Jul 3, 2023 9:36 PM
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ive read The Art of War like a decade ago, it was fine but its more like a pamphlet than a book, very short, but readable, interesting
Jul 3, 2023 9:55 PM
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Both China and Germany suck ass at war so neither. 
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Jul 4, 2023 3:00 AM
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I don't see the necessity, most people aren't going to have to run a war.
Jul 4, 2023 3:20 AM
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I don't think there are any good strategy books on war for modern warfare. Capabilities of modern weapons aren't considered in these ancient books. Now even AI is in the equation too, it's not fully utilized yet. Modern warfare isn't much about old strategies but more about disinformation to demoralize and divide enemy or just asap annihilation with modern weapons. Just see the Gulf War, Cold war and the recent Ukraine war is playing out.

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