If you win, it is a blow; Run if you can't win, that's escape. Chairman Mao's application of Sun Tzu's Art of War in China's modern war is perfect. Even the grandson himself failed to achieve the goal of "defeating the enemy without fighting", and Lao Mao also wrote a brilliant stroke.

Cao Cao once wrote in the preface to Sun Tzu's Brief Explanation of the Art of War: "I have read many art books, but Sun Tzu wrote them in depth."

-When commenting on the book "Grandson", Mao Chaoren said: "The grandchildren of the previous dynasties did not leave behind; Grandchildren can't keep grandchildren. "

-Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong commented: "Without Sun Wu, I couldn't finish reading all the art books."

-Dr. Sun Yat-sen said: "As far as the history of China is concerned, there are thirteen articles on the art of war for more than two thousand years, and those thirteen articles have been established as China's military philosophy."

Sun Tzu's Art of War Notes of Past Dynasties

-Cao Cao's A Brief Explanation of Sun Tzu's Art of War is the earliest annotated version of Sun Tzu's Art of War.

-Ouyang Xiu said, "Thirteen Records of Sun Tzu handed down from generation to generation are mostly annotated by Cao Gong, Du Mu and Chen Bi."

Liu Bowen, a Korean military strategist, wrote Hundreds of Battles, including Sun Tzu's Art of War. Sun Tzu said, "Know yourself and your enemy, and you will win every battle." "If you know the place and date of the battle, you can fight a battle thousands of miles away." Liu Bowen said, "When dispatch troops attacks the enemy, it will know where it will fight. When the division arrives, we can let the enemy arrive as scheduled and win with the enemy. ..... knowing the place of war, knowing the day of war, can fight thousands of miles. "

Du Mu commented on Sun Tzu's Art of War: "If you don't know the enemy's situation, the army can't move;" It is essential to know the enemy's situation ":Liu Bowen:" Whoever wants to use troops, first use spies to suppress the number, reality and movement of the enemy, and then mobilize the troops, will surely make great achievements and be invincible. "

mao zedong military thinking

Mao Zedong's military thought is integrated with Sun Tzu's Art of War. Sun Tzu said, "Soldiers, the important affairs of the country, the place of life and death, and the way of survival are indispensable." . Soldiers are needed not only to defend and maintain the existing state power, to overthrow a state power, but also to build a country; Mao Zedong's famous saying "political power comes from the barrel of a gun" is a deduction of the principle that Sun Tzu seized political power.