>in war your aim should be to defeat your enemies Huh... I guess people back then weren't so stupid after all?
>>64684727>In war, you should know what you want- General So
>>64684727Mao's "On protracted war" is unironically an interesting read.
>>64684727>Another Tzu spam thread
>>64684727>military class gets gutted by a long period of conflict>have to start letting people from outside this class command armiesit's basic because it's an introductory text for newfagsthink of it like Warfare For Dummies, not a PhD thesis
>>64684851Honestly if McNamara read Mao or Sun Tzu we might never have lost Vietnam. Western military thought is too focused on winning wars. East Asian military thought is actually more about conquest than the winning of wars which is why I think it complements European warfare really well.
He truly is the Jordon Peterson of his field.
>>64686095don't diss Sun Tzu like that
>>64684727Tell that to Putin.
>>64684727once you understand that Sun Tzu was trying to teach at best the last guy in a squad whose superiors all died in some evil ass rape conflict who wants to learn to lead his men and at worst insulated rulers who never left the border of their palace who had literally no understanding that "yes an army needs to be able to feed itself after they leave the walls of the kingdom" you understand why almost all of it is egregiously dumbed down fluff.
>>64686093if mcnamara was capable of anything except huffing his own farts he wouldn't be mcnamara
>>64684727If he's so great why does General Tso have his own dish but there's no Tzu's Chicken?
>>64684727A very significant chunk of the Art of War is spent defining "victory" and "defeat". That very sentence is setting up "Defeating your enemies doesn't just come from wandering around trying to kill their troops", which is the entire point of the rest of the chapter.
>>64684727I'd say he knows a little more about fighting than you do, pal, because he invented it.
