Sun Tzu at Gettysburg

Imagine if Robert E. Lee had withdrawn to higher ground at Gettysburg instead of sending Pickett uphill against the entrenched Union line. Or if Napolon, at Waterloo, had avoided mistakes hed never made before. The advice that would have changed these crucial battles was written down centuries before Christ was bornbut unfortunately for Lee, Napolon, and Hitler, Sun Tzus The Art of War only became widely available in the West in the mid-twentieth century. As Bevin Alexander shows, Sun Tzus maxims often boil down to common sense, in a particularly pure and clear form. When Alexander frames these modern battles against 2,400-year-old precepts, the degree of overlap is stunning.