"The Art of War" in the middle east and North Africa ...

[rareboy]

Don't just pick on the US.

Every empire gains advantages in trade, defense, resource exploitation, etc. through their involvement in the affairs of other countries.

Most recently, it has been the Us, China and the USSR/Russia....but prior to that it was Britain, France, Germany, Holland, Portugal, Spain, Japan, the Ottomans, and before that it was the Holy Roman Empire, the Mongols, the Han and we can go all the way back to Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Rome, Persia, Greece ...the chain is endless and unbroken. It is why we are still literally fighting a war that has been going on for the last 4500 years......

For better (or worse) it is what has pushed civilizations forward and resulted in the migration of humans around the world.

If you don't understand what is happening in Syria as part of this never-ending story, then you...and millions of others...cannot understand anything at all.

And the documentary 'The Art of War' is as good an introduction as any to understanding tactics.

The most fundamental of Sun Tzu's principles is that "warfare is based on deception", and he believed that “the supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting". One of his stratagems emphasizes the importance of knowing your enemy, “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat”.

 

[Telstra]

^ not pick on the US but because the US always in the picture that is way i talk about the US lol
Anyway, ""warfare is based on deception", and he believed that “the supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting".

Sounds like the US is stupid because it didn't fellow this rule "subdue the enemy without fight"
Canada at the moment is "the art of war" smart because it decide to do humanitarian aid instead.