What's New:
Happy New Year from Sun Tzu (January 5, 2009)
A Piece on Peace (January 5, 2009) Thomas Huynh, founder of Sonshi.com, featured on Vanderbilt Business, publication of Vanderbilt University.
 Coming soon! Interview with author Jodi Wing (December 8, 2008) For all you fiction readers out there, our good friend Jodi Wing has an excellent new novel out called The Art of Social War. It's based on Sun Tzu's Art of War except the story takes place in modern-day Hollywood which of course involves big egos, big money, and wives engaging in extremely bad behavior. Needless to say, Sun Tzu had it easy in war-torn China.
Jason Seiden's blog entries on The Art of War (December 1, 2008) Business consultant Jason Seiden has begun his thoughts of each chapter of Sun Tzu's The Art of War on his excellent blog.
Discussion Topics:
Sun-Tzu's Impact on Strategics (highlighted January 5, 2009) What was Sun-Tzu's main impact in the [strategic mindset] of the world? When I originally read Sun-Tzu's AoW I assumed the book was a review of some type because I assumed people knew these things.
Moral Cultivation (highlighted December 7, 2008) Many Chinese philosophers talk about "Moral Cultivation." What does this mean? How many levels of cultivation are there? What is the purpose of moral cultivation? Does it just mean discipline or maybe restraint? Weiqi/Go and the art of war (highlighted November 3, 2008) I read the book "The Protracted Game: A Wei-Ch'i Interpretation of Maoist Revolutionary Strategy by Scott A. Boorman, Oxford University Press 1969" but that is very global but maybe that is all there is. Does anybody [have] more on this subject?
Sun Tzu in the News:
New champ Frank Mir: misinformation an effective strategy (MMA Junkie - January 1, 2009) Mir, no stranger to Sun Tzu's definitive military-strategy classic The Art of War, discussed the pre-fight strategy and the importance of misinformation this week.
Where Policy Makers Are Born (Wall Street Journal - December 20, 2008) Mr. Hertog was present as an enthusiastic admirer of Yale's Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy, the conference's host. The yearlong course -- which is capped at 24 students a year -- combines rigorous study of classical texts by Thucydides, Sun Tzu, Machiavelli and others with high-profile summer internships, intensive immersion in the craft of policy making and an elaborate crisis simulation exercise that tries to give students a sense of what it feels like to make political decisions in real-time. No rest in Europe for tired Scolari (Electric New Paper - December 10, 2008) Wilkins is Chelsea through and through and would never have deliberately hurt his manager, which only makes his comments even more unfortunate. Scolari, famously, is a student of Sun Tzu and will know that revealing weaknesses to the enemy only invites attack.
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