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The influence of this masterpiece has gone far beyond the national boundaries, making many famous foreign strategists intoxicated and addicted to China's profound traditional strategic culture.
This masterpiece not only transcends national boundaries, but also transcends time and space. As john slessor, marshal of the British Air Force, said in the article "Military Proverbs in China", "The wonder of Sun Tzu lies in how amazing his thoughts are-with a little change in some words, his proverbs seem to have been written yesterday."
This masterpiece is no longer a simple war work, but a must-read for leaders in the political, economic and diplomatic fields. Sun Tzu's thought is widely used not only in the modern military field, but also in politics, economy, diplomacy, sports and other fields. In this wide application, people not only get inspiration from the profound thoughts of the ancients, but also inject vitality into the Art of War in the new era.
First, the application status of Sun Tzu's Art of War
The application status of Sun Tzu's art of war is first manifested in its extremely high popularization rate. According to relevant media reports, The Art of War was translated into the Art of War in the West. At present, there are as many as 102 books related to The Art of War in the world's largest Amazon online bookstore, among which The Art of War was translated by Samuel Griffith and the paperback edition was published by Oxford University Press, with a total of 1986 books. According to the Los Angeles Times, after the "9. 1 1" incident, this edition of The Art of War sold 16000 copies within one month. Friends who often go abroad will find that the bookshop counters in many airports are filled with The Art of War, and many people can also be seen reading The Art of War at the waiting area or the waiting area.
A famous Chinese-American writer said, "With the vigorous development of China's economy, American business people are more and more curious about China's Millennium Art of War. How to use Sun Tzu's art of war has become another secret for westerners to discuss the success of shopping malls. Walking into the commercial book areas of major photo shops in the United States, Sun Tzu's Art of War with different authors and contents can be seen everywhere. Even when I gave a speech to American business school students, Sun Tzu's Art of War was only mentioned by me, and a small quotation from Sun Tzu's Art of War has been held high by American students. "
(A) the application of Sun Tzu's art of war in the military field
Sun Tzu's art of war has been widely used in modern military field. Many famous military analysts in the world believe that Sun Tzu, a famous military thinker in China, is profoundly influencing the modern battlefield nearly 2,500 years after his death. According to relevant data, since the late 1970s, the United States has held thousands of lectures on Sun Tzu's Art of War among officials of the Ministry of National Defense and US military officers. General Kelly, commander of the US Marine Corps, believes that Sun Tzu's Art of War is the foundation of all sports warfare. He listed this book as the annual reading of the army and asked every marine to read it.
Recently, an expert named Mark McNealy wrote The Art of War by Sun Tzu and The Art of Modern War. He said: "The Art of War is a must-read book for high-level military students, and it has been integrated into the military doctrine of the US Army and Marine Corps." When introducing this book to western readers, the publisher of this book said that Sun Tzu's Art of War is the "Swiss Army Knife" in military theory, which can cope with any situation.
James Clarville, an American who translated Sun Tzu's Art of War, said: "If I am the supreme commander, or if I am elected president or prime minister, I will make it clear by law that all officers, especially generals, must take the exam of Chapter 13 of Sun Tzu's Art of War twice a year, with an oral exam and a written exam, with a passing score of 95 points. General officers who failed the exam were immediately dismissed automatically without appeal. Officers at other levels are automatically downgraded. "
After the Second World War, strategists in western developed countries once again discovered the great value of Sun Tzu's The Art of War, and used its strategic principles to think about realistic and difficult strategic issues, all of which obtained satisfactory answers and results. For example, some experts have formulated a national nuclear strategy based on Sun Tzu's strategic deterrence theory. In the book Real War, Nixon directly applied the idea of Sun Tzu's Art of War and criticized the strategy of "mutually assured destruction" in the United States at that time.
Many modern military theories are based on the Art of War. Lieutenant General Richard Lawrence, a famous American strategic theorist and president of the National Defense University, believes that this operational principle is based on the principles of Sun Tzu's Art of War, that is, "changing the odd and the right" and "avoiding the real and making the imaginary". The US 1982 new version of the Operational Outline directly quoted a large number of famous sayings from Sun Tzu's Art of War. The members of the writing team of this Operational Outline have been studying Sun Tzu's Art of War for a long time. 1983 The second chapter of Military Strategy published by the United States is entitled The Evolution of Military Strategy-Sun Tzu's Wisdom.
Many strategic decision makers directly consider the realistic war problem according to Sun Tzu's Art of War. It is reported that when the Gulf War broke out in 1990, there were two books on President Bush's desk, one was Caesar's Biography, and the other was Sun Tzu's Art of War. According to media reports, in this war, a 90-page English version of The Art of War was transported to the desert of Saudi Arabia for the combatants to read. The news sent back by American reporters from the Gulf battlefield, which was shrouded in the clouds of war, said: "Although China didn't send a single soldier here, a mysterious China man went to the front line and manipulated the operation. He is the grandson of more than 2,500 years ago. "