Sun Tzu's Art of War Plus Strategy against Terror: Ancient Wisdom for Today's War

Two books in one, the only award winning translation of Sun Tzu's The Art of War plus our award-winning stanza-by-stanza adaptation applying his principles to the war on terror. This second edition updates the book a decade after its first release to address recent changes in the Middle East including the recent invasion of Iraq by ISIS fundamentalists.

This award-winning book adapts Sun Tzu's timeless principles to address today's military challenge of terrorism. Foreword Magazine's 2006 Book of the Year Finalist in Philosophy, Like all our adaptations, Sun Tzu's Art of War is on the left-hand pages with our application to terror on the facing right-hand pages.

Unlike partisan views of the war on terror, this book follows Sun Tzu's principles stanza by stanza, examining the relevant issues as he would. What emerges in a unique picture of the war on terror that you cannot get anywhere else. For example, Sun Tzu tells us that all war are based on economics and forces us to examine the economic underpinnings of terrorist attacks. What is the real battle underlying terrorism? How does attacking civilians generate money for the terrorists? What will happen if the West refuses to engage terrorism.

Table of Contents

Author's Forward to Second Edition
Key Dates in Modern Islamic Terror
Introduction: Strategy and Terror
1 Analysis
Freedom versus Terror
2 Going to War
The Economics of Terror
3 Planning an Attack
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4 Positioning
In Position to Attack Terror
5 Momentum
Innovation against Terror
6 Weakness and Strength
The Terrorists' Weak Points
7 Armed Conflict
Minimizing Destruction
8 Adaptability
Shifting Our Priorities
9 Armed March
Campaigning against Terror
10 Field Position
Evaluating Our Options
11 Types of Terrain
Responding to Terror
12 Attacking with Fire
Fighting the Message War
13 Using Spies
Acquiring Intelligence
The Future: The Ten Keys to Winning
Index of Topics in The Art of War
Glossary of Key Concepts
About the Translator and Author
Other Art of War Books by Gary Gagliardi