Scholar's Stage: Strategic Theory↗

Born Aixin-Jueluo Xuanye and styled Kangxi, his reign was the longest of any emperor. To this day no Chinese scholar has followed in the foot steps of Arthur Schlesinger Sr .

Victor Mair’s translation of the Sunzi Bingfa . Image Source . W hen translated into English, the Sunzi Bingfa , usually titled Sunzi’s Art of War , is a fairly small work.

Mao Zedong writing On Protracted Warfare (Yan’an, 1938) Source: Wikimedia.

This post is the second in a series. I strongly recommended readers start with the first post , which introduces the purpose and methods of this essay.

T he theories of John Boyd are an interesting example of a general historical principle: medium changes message .

L ast week Strategy Bridge published an interesting piece by Sebastian Bae . In it Bae analyzes the United States’ strategy to defeat ISIS through the lens of the Sunzi and its precepts.

I spent the later part of my teenage years in the forbidding climes of southeastern Minnesota.

A ntulio Echevarria’s Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction is a short and accessible introduction to military strategy, as ‘strategy’ is thought about and debated in American national...

L awrence Freedman’s Strategy: A History is gargantuan. Really. This intellectual history clocks in at over 760 pages.

In the most recent issue of American Affair s , Walter Hudson argues against “the pull of the Cold War analogy.

image source IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR military theorists across the West were desperate to fashion a path around the next war’s trenches.

Thomas Barnett’s vision of the core and the gap Japan’s 2022 National Security Strategy concludes with a dramatic pronouncement: At this time of an inflection point in history, Japan is finding...