How to “FAIL” at the “Art of War”










There are three key principals to The Art of War.



3. Avoid what is strong. Attack what is weak.







He tries again but the concubines laugh again.










After every battle, Sun Tzu learns more about his enemy.





The US commander breaks these rules.












Deception was also one of Sun Tzu’s rules.































The allies will follow this rule.











At the Battle Gettysburg, Lee did not give clear orders.















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Several American presidents ignored Sun Tzu’s The Art of War.







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7 Responses to How to “FAIL” at the “Art of War”

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  3. merlin says:

    Also, who wrote this article? I just want to ask did we really win the Cold War with Russia without fighting?

    • I wrote the post.

      However, as for my source and who produced the videos, I’d have to do some digging to discover that. Be my guest.

      I only embedded the links in the post that I found on YouTube and summarized from what I learned from the videos, which makes for some interesting thought.

      As for winning the Cold War. The US won the Cold War with the USSR. However, even though the communist empire that was the USSR collapsed and dissolved, Russia is still there and it still has thousands of nuclear weapons and due to Siberian oil also has wealth from which comes global economic clout.

      Russia is also a member of what is known as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), which is attempting to supplant the US dollar as the only International currency for trade with a basket of currencies that would be used to trade globally. This means that the Cold War has now become a war of currencies. If the US losses this struggle, then it will not dominate the world economically as it has done since World War II.

      Communism as the political system that ruled Russia may be gone, but what has replaced it and will that new political system become another perceived threat to the US somewhere through time?

  4. merlin says:

    I dont think Sun Tzu can be applied to our current war. It could be applied with the purpose of defeating 1 individual enemy, but it will not solve the problem of terrorism as a whole. Terrorism is not a WAR, but a philosophy. Fighting a war (country vs country) or individual….all u do is cut of the head of the beast and the beast dies. In the case of Terrorism, it is like a cloud. Just as Communism was a cloud of smoke too. Communism is a philosophy, which was covered up by the media and treated as a beast that can be brought down. The REAL beast was the dictator IN the communist political party. Just as Obama is IN the democratic party. Democracy is not a physical being, but a thought. That is why America exists as well as terrorists. Terrorists can knock off Americans and we can counter….but no matter what it’s a neverending battle between an immovable rock and an unstoppable force. Destroying 1 person will not stop it because democracy as well as terrorism lies in the hearts and minds of those that believe in it. The media today wants a story that makes an impact. It sells. If twisting the definition of a word creates that BIG story of the decade, then so be it.

    • Merlin,

      You said, “The media today wants a story that makes an impact.” True and that equals “Yellow Journalism”. It’s all about making money and accuracy be damned. If slanting a story means sacrificing or leaving out a few facts that would tell another story, then so be it. There is always a good and bad side to most things and this is the bad side to a “free press”.

      As for democracy, America’s Founding Fathers were of a like mind that democracy meant mob rule and they despised the concept, which is why the United States was created as a Republic and nowhere in the Constitution does it say the US was meant to be a democracy as we refer to it today.

      The popularity of the term Democracy and the changes to our political system started to morph in the early 20th century under President Wilson until today we refer to the US as a democracy instead of a republic, which lends support to your theory that intellectual ideas and/or concepts such as Communism, socialism, capitalism, democracy and terrorism are like clouds and like clouds they can easily be blown away and replaced with a different sky as we see in the US when it went from a limited republic to the mob rule of democracy.

      Consider that the US as an early Republic only allowed about 10% of the population to vote, women and children were chattel belonging to men and would remain so for about a century or more and slavery existed in the southern states and when a criminal was convicted of a capital crime that meant the death penalty, execution took place within two weeks or less without appeals that dragged on for years.



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