The significance of Sun Tzu's Art of War in today's society

Modern Application of Sun Tzu's Art of War

The Art of War, as a top work revealing the law of competition, shows the "light of reason" that guides people to get out of the labyrinth of modern competition. This "light of reason" is demonstrated through a series of profound strategic concepts, such as "wisdom and strength", "softness and strength", and "victory without fighting".

The influence of this masterpiece has gone far beyond the country's borders, allowing many famous foreign strategists to be mesmerized by the profound Chinese traditional strategic culture.

This masterpiece has not only crossed national boundaries, but also transcended time and space. As British Air Marshal John Slesser said in his article "Chinese Military Aphorisms", "What is fascinating about Sun Tzu is how amazingly 'up-to-date' his ideas are -- with a few shifts in words and phrases, his aphorisms seem to have been written yesterday. aphorisms seem like they were just written yesterday."

This masterpiece is no longer simply a work on war, but has become required reading for leaders in all fields of politics, economics and diplomacy. Sun Tzu's ideas have been widely applied not only in the modern military field but also in various fields such as politics, economics, diplomacy and sports. In this wide application, people not only get enlightenment in the profound thoughts of the ancients, but also inject the vigor of the new era into Sun Tzu's art of war.

I. Application of Sun Tzu's Art of War

The application of Sun Tzu's Art of War is firstly manifested in its high popularity. According to relevant media reports: "Sun Tzu's Art of War" is translated as "The Art of War" in the West (The Art of War), in the world's largest "Amazon" online bookstore, there are as many as 102 kinds of "Sun Tzu"-related titles, which are translated by Samuel Griffiths. Among them, "The Art of War", translated by Samuel Griffiths and published by Oxford University Press in 1986, is the most popular paperback (see photo), which is always at the top of the bookstore's bestseller list in the science category. According to the Los Angeles Times, this edition of The Art of War sold 16,000 copies in one month after the September 11 attacks. Those who often go abroad will find that the bookstore counters in many airports are full of "The Art of War", and many people can be seen flipping through "The Art of War" in places where they are waiting for airplanes or buses.

A famous American-Chinese writer said: "With China's booming economy, American businesspeople have become more and more curious about China's millennia-old The Art of War, and how to utilize it has become another secret for Westerners to explore how to win in the shopping mall. Into the United States under the business books section of the major graphic store, the author of different, different content of the "Art of War" explanation and insights overlooking, even to the U.S. business school students lecture, "The Art of War" has just been mentioned by me, a miniature "The Art of War" of the small quotes have been the U.S. students held aloft."

(I) Application of Sun Tzu's Art of War in the Military Field

Sun Tzu's Art of War is widely used in the modern military field. Many famous military analysts in the world believe that Sun Tzu, the famous Chinese military thinker, is profoundly influencing the modern battlefield nearly 2,500 years after his death. According to relevant information: the United States has held thousands of lectures on the Art of War among officials of the Department of Defense and officers of the United States Army since the late 1970s. General Kelly, Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, considers Sun Tzu's Art of War to be the foundation of all maneuver warfare. He has made it annual reading for his troops and requires every Marine to read it.

More recently, an expert by the name of Mark McNeely wrote a book, "Sun Tzu and the Art of War in Modern Warfare". He talks about how "Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a required reading for students at top military academies and has been melded into the military doctrine of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps." The book's publisher, in introducing it to Western readers, called "The Art of War" a "Swiss Army Knife" of military doctrine, adequate for any situation.

An American who translated Sun Tzu's Art of War, James Clavell, said: "If I were the supreme commander, or elected president or prime minister, I would make it a law that all officers, especially generals, must take the Thirteen Articles of Sun Tzu twice a year, once orally and once in writing, with a passing grade of 95 points. General officers who failed the examinations were immediately and automatically dismissed with no appeal, and officers of other ranks were automatically demoted."

After the Second World War, strategists in developed countries in the West once again discovered the great value of Sun Tzu's Art of War, and used the strategic principles therein to think about real and difficult strategic problems, and all of them obtained satisfactory answers and results. For example, some experts formulated national nuclear strategies based on Sun Tzu's theory of strategic deterrence. Nixon, in his book "The Real War", directly applied the ideas of Sun Tzu's Art of War and criticized the "mutually assured destruction" strategy of the United States at that time.

Many of the modern military theories that have been introduced are based on Sun Tzu's Art of War. The famous American strategic theorist, the president of the National Defense University, Lieutenant General Richard Lawrence, in the elaboration of the "air-ground integrated warfare - deep attack", that this principle of combat is based on the principle of "Sun Tzu's Art of War" of the "change of odd and positive" and "avoiding the real and hitting the virtual". "Avoiding the real and striking the virtual". The new 1982 edition of the U.S. Operational Program directly quotes a large number of Sun Tzu's Art of War quotes. The members of the writing team of this "Operational Outline" have studied Sun Tzu's Art of War carefully for a long time. the 1983 U.S. publication of "Military Strategy", the title of the second chapter is "The Evolution of Military Strategy - Sun Tzu's Wisdom".

Many strategic decision-makers think about the realities of war based directly on Sun Tzu's Art of War. Some sources say that when the Gulf War broke out in 1990, U.S. President George H.W. Bush had two books on his desk, a biography of Julius Caesar and a copy of Sun Tzu's The Art of War. According to media reports, during this war, a 90-page-thick English translation of Sun Tzu's The Art of War was shipped to the Saudi Arabian desert for the participants in the war to read. American journalists sent back from the war-clouded Gulf battlefield said, "Even though China has not stationed a single soldier here, a mysterious Chinese man is physically present on the front lines, maneuvering the combat operations, and he is Sun Tzu, who was here more than 2,500 years ago."

In the recent war in Iraq, the U.S. commander then claimed that his combat doctrine was based on Sun Tzu's Art of War. Franks, who was the commander of the U.S. Central Command during the Iraq war, was a man who was well versed in Sun Tzu's Art of War, media reports said. The U.S. military in the war used many methods of warfare with Sun Tzu's ideas, among them, Sun Tzu's "use between" ideas without fighting the battle of Baghdad is a masterpiece. A French news agency article entitled "Sun Tzu on the battlefield in Iraq" said: "Nearly 2,500 years after his death, China's famous military thinker is profoundly influencing the way British and American field commanders think and act on the battlefields of Iraq. . "The strategic ideas of Sun Tzu's classic work, The Art of War, are woven into the overall strategic vision for the capture of Baghdad."

Sun Tzu's Art of War has also greatly influenced the operational philosophies of other nations. Liddell Hart, an advocate of the "indirect route" strategy, says that almost all of the strategic and tactical principles he has discussed in more than 20 years are embodied in Sun Tzu's 13 books. Commenting on the Western view that "new technologies determine everything," Juma Mirtinen, president of the Finnish Association for Science and Technology and former director of the Ministry of Defense's Institute for Strategic Issues, noted that "more than 2,000 years ago, the great strategist Sun Tzu listed some of the factors that determine whether a war is won or lost." He criticized some modern militarists for ignoring what Sun Tzu called "morale", the most important factor. In an Indian-authored history of the Indian Army, it is written that the Indians won the Third Indo-Pakistani War because they succeeded in using Sun Tzu's method of avoiding the real and hitting the virtual.

(II) Application of Sun Tzu's Art of War in the economic field

The application of Sun Tzu's Art of War in China's economic field has a long history. According to the Records of the Grand Historian (史记-货殖列传), the earliest person to introduce Sun Tzu's Art of War into business management was Bai Gui, who was a warlord in the Warring States period at the time of the Marquis Wen of Wei. He used the principles of Sun-Wu's Art of War and Shang Yang's Law for production and management, observing the changes of the times and adopting the strategies of "I take what people give up, and I take what people give", and achieved success. At present, there are many entrepreneurs and economists who have profound experience in the application of Sun Tzu's Art of War. Hu Dayuan, Chinese Dean of Peking University's Peking University International MBA, said, "Sun Tzu's Art of War is a pithy summary of a large number of war examples from more than 2,000 years ago. The core of today's MBA education is to cultivate students' ability to observe real problems in depth and find out their laws. Every enterprise welcomes managers who are good at solving problems." Xu Erming, dean of the business school of Renmin University of China, said, "Learning strategy abroad is to use Sun Tzu's Art of War as a classic reference book, and they believe that many ways of thinking in strategy were solved more than 2,000 years ago. In fact, the book foreigners like to read instead is our The Art of War, which they find very useful. In recent years, many management scholars have found many similarities between corporate competition and war, and they have applied the concepts of Sun Tzu's Art of War to their management operations." Lu Yongyue, president of LG China, said, "I like the Chinese Art of War very much, and there is a lot of wisdom in it. It is also very useful for business management."

In the 1960s, Japan introduced Sun Tzu's Art of War into business management. Japanese scholar Vu Murayama said there are two pillars for the survival and development of Japanese companies: the modern management system of the United States, and the strategy and tactics of Sun Tzu's Art of War. Japanese entrepreneur Takeshi Ohashi wrote "the art of war management", about how to apply the theory of the art of war in business, which particularly emphasizes the Sun Tzu art of war management business. Konosuke Matsushita, Japan's "God of Management", openly proclaimed that Sun Tzu's Art of War was the magic weapon of their success. He said: "Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese philosopher, is the world's first deity. Our staff must worship him, memorize his art of war and apply it flexibly in order for our company to prosper." The chairman of Japan Mackenzie Company, Kenichi Ohmae, wrote "Sun Tzu's influence on Japan's business management", pointing out that Japanese enterprises can beat European and American enterprises because Japan "adopts China's Art of War to guide the management of enterprises, which is more reasonable and effective than that of the U.S.". In his book "The Mind of a Strategist", he quoted a lot from "The Art of War", claiming that "The Art of War" is the "supreme management textbook" for Japanese enterprises.

The U.S. economics and business communities are no less devoted to Sun Tzu's Art of War than the Japanese. The famous American manager George in the "history of management thought" said: "You want to become a management talent? You must read The Art of War!" Hammer, the famous American business strategist today, quoted Sun Tzu many times in his articles. He said, "Estimating only the current strategic advantages of known competitors does not help to understand the determination, staying power and creativity of potential competitors. Sun Tzu, a Chinese military strategist, argued 3,000 years ago, 'Surprise and attack.'" Yang Zhuang, associate dean of Fotomo University's School of Business and U.S. dean of Peking University's Peking University International MBA, said, "The Art of War is an heirloom in the field of strategy theory, a classic in the history of the world's art of war, and a magnum opus on the way of corporate triumph."

Successful entrepreneurs with brains in other countries have similarly seen the value of Sun Tzu's Art of War. Bernabe, president of Italy's Eni, said, "On the subject of strategy, I am reading The Art of War, a classic textbook written some 2,500 years ago by a Chinese general, Sun Tzu, a comprehensive textbook on strategy that can still be applied today to a wide range of human activities."

Sun Tzu's ideas have made a deep mark on modern economic strategy theory. American marketing guru Philip Kotler has also explored the application of the Art of War in marketing in his book Marketing Management. Japanese entrepreneurs highly respected Sun Tzu's idea of "the top and the bottom of the same desire to win", combined with Confucianism to create a cooperative management model of warmism. In modern economic strategic management, there is a concept called "SWOT" (Strengths, Weakness, Opportunity and Threats), that is, "Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Risks". John Alley, an American scholar who came to China to teach economics, associated "SWOT" with Sun Tzu's Art of War - The Book of Reality and Fiction. He pointed out: "The distinction between the real and the imaginary in Sun Tzu's Art of War, and its advocacy of countering the imaginary with the real, is the same as the effect of the modern SWOT analysis method, which is a popular strategic method in marketing. This method gives the areas of strength and weakness of the company and gives the opportunities and risks in the market. The idea of applying strengths to pursue opportunities can be described as a reprint of Sun Tzu's Art of War. It says exactly what we plan to do in a different way." The scholar also wrote an article titled "Sun Tzu's Seven Character Strategy - How Marketing Managers Can Apply Sun Tzu's Art of War". In the article, he wrote, "The Art of War, though ancient, may be a blueprint for the future."

Sun Tzu's Art of War has helped many entrepreneurs achieve great business results. Roger Smith, chairman of the board of directors of General Motors in the United States, sold 8.3 million cars in 1984, ranking first in the world. He said the secret of his success was that he "learned a lot of things from the book The Art of War by Sun Tzu, which was written by a Chinese strategist 2,000 years ago," which gave him a "strategist's mind".

"Soldiers are not constant, the water is not constant, can win because of the enemy change, called God". The market is ever-changing, operators should be based on market changes and flexible countermeasures. Sony's application of Sun Tzu's idea of success. 50 years, Sony "to the positive, to the odd win", according to the market demand, the introduction of new products, to occupy the market, to support the development of enterprises.

"The image of a soldier is like water, the shape of water avoids the high and tends to the low, the shape of a soldier avoids the real and strikes the imaginary. This idea has become an important strategic thinking of the enterprise. Many enterprises to avoid the main battlefield of market competition, a unique way to open up uninvolved segments of the market, a success, to achieve the strengths and weaknesses, to avoid the real and hit the virtual effect. In this regard, Japan's Nintendo is a successful example. It was originally a small company that produces playing cards, in 1980 a unique way to develop a popular family game machine, open up the Japanese market, the 1986 launch of the game machine for American families, and opened up the U.S. market, is now sweeping the European market.

China's famous entrepreneur Zhang Ruimin has an in-depth study of Sun Tzu's Art of War. He believes that to seize the market to have speed, which is what Sun Tzu said, "the speed of the water, to the drifting stone, the potential", and this "stone" is the customer. He used the strategic thinking of Sun Tzu's Art of War to achieve great success in the fierce competition in the shopping mall, making China's Haier go global.

Wu Yuzhang, Volvo's chief executive in China, is a very successful entrepreneur who utilizes Sun Tzu's art of war. when he first joined Volvo in 1997, the company's annual sales volume in China was only 27 units. After five years of struggle, he defeated the main competitors, Volvo annual sales increased by more than 30 times, occupying a major share of China's large car market. He said: The market is the battlefield. Entrepreneurs who don't understand market war science can't lead their enterprises to achieve ultimate victory in long-term market competition. Entrepreneurs who don't know Sun Tzu's Art of War can't be the real successor. The old saying goes: half of the "Analects of Confucius" to rule the world. Today's cloud: half of "Sun Tzu's Art of War" to fight the world. Sun Tzu's Art of War is the "bible" of business warfare. Especially in today's China from the planned economy to the market economy of the rapid transition of the times, that is, in all sectors of the commercial war from the unification of the "Zhou Tien Zi" world situation to the "Spring and Autumn Period", and then rapidly to the "Warring States" development of the times, "Sun Tzu's Art of War" is the "Bible" in commercial warfare. In the era of development of "Sun Tzu's Art of War", "Sun Tzu's Art of War" has far-reaching significance for our entrepreneurs to guide and practical use. This is my personal favorite book. Guaranteed to read it once a month while the feelings and experiences are naturally different depending on the situation and position. The Art of War is my career "charger".

The town of Dawang in Shandong, China, has more than 7 billion assets. Its success is also closely related to the application of Sun Tzu's Art of War. The town's "Dawang spirit" reflects the traditional Chinese military culture represented by Sun Tzu's Art of War.

(3) Application of Sun Tzu's Art of War in other fields

Sun Tzu's Art of War is also widely used in other fields. For example, in the field of diplomacy, Brzezinski, a famous American expert in international strategy, in his book The Art of War, elaborated on the strategy of winning without fighting against the Soviet Union directly based on Sun Tzu's ideas, and through the understanding of Sun Tzu's "Qudi", which means "to gain the masses of the world", he put forward the concept of "key countries", which means "key countries", which means "key countries". In the field of sports, it has been reported that the concept of a "key nation" has been introduced. In the field of sports, it is reported that the Brazilian soccer coach, Scolari, took Sun Tzu's Art of War with him to the World Championships and won the World Championships by applying Sun Tzu's thoughts on the Art of War. I have read an article on Sun Tzu's Art of War and Xiangqi, in which it is written: "If we can understand Sun Tzu's Art of War in a refined way and apply it to the actual battle of Xiangqi, we can say that we have grasped the source of most of the tactics of Xiangqi, and our chess skills will develop by leaps and bounds, and we will be getting closer and closer to the level of an expert player, or even surpassing them. " Apart from that, Sun Tzu's Art of War has one or another applied connection in the art of leadership, personnel management, life pursuits and even family relationships. We can easily find applied books on these aspects if we carefully browse through the bibliographies of libraries and bookstores.

(4) Sun Tzu's Art of War Application Activities and Achievements

In recent years, the application of Sun Tzu's Art of War is expanding to a higher level and a wider scope, with many wonderful Sun Tzu's Art of War application activities being organized, and many excellent Sun Tzu's Art of War application experts and application achievements emerging.

1, Sun Tzu art of war application research exchange

Many places at home and abroad organized various types of Sun Tzu art of war application seminars or symposiums. For example, the Shandong Sun Tzu Art of War Research Institute successfully organized three international forums on the application of Sun Tzu's Art of War, and organized a forum on the application of Sun Tzu's Art of War across the Taiwan Strait. Shandong Huimin and Guangrao have organized Sun Tzu Art of War Application Forums on different topics. Suzhou Sun Wu Zi Research Association organized its own Sun Zi Art of War application activities. The Tianjin Sun Tzu Art of War Research Council made a series of plans to carry out the application of Sun Tzu's Art of War. Peking University has organized a Sun Tzu Art of War Club, which organizes or participates in some Sun Tzu Art of War application exchange activities.

The Chinese Sun Tzu Art of War Research Council pays attention to the research on the application of Sun Tzu Art of War at home and abroad, for example, it attends the press conference of the publication of the foreign works on the application of Sun Tzu Art of War, pays attention to the research on the application of Sun Tzu Art of War in universities and colleges all over the country, pays attention to the lectures on the application of Sun Tzu Art of War around the country, and pays attention to the application of Sun Tzu Art of War in the Malaysian Sun Tzu Art of War Research Council. The previous international seminars on Sun Tzu's Art of War organized by the China Sun Tzu Art of War Research Society have already carried out a great deal of exchanges on the applied research of Sun Tzu's Art of War. Our sixth international symposium on the art of war, with the theme of "strategic culture", has given more prominence to the application aspect.

2, Sun Tzu's Art of War applied training

Organizing Sun Tzu's Art of War training is an important part of Sun Tzu's Art of War application. Harvard University and Columbia University's School of Business Administration in the United States have opened courses on Sun Tzu's Art of War, requiring students to memorize "The Art of War". Sun Tzu's Art of War training has been launched in various fields in China, and there are short-term training courses on Sun Tzu's Art of War in Beijing with admission tickets worth up to more than $5,000. The China Sun Tzu Art of War Research Association has set up Sun Tzu Art of War teaching and research bases and training centers in Huimin, Tancheng and Mengliangmu in Shandong Province and the Dragon Vein Hot Spring in Xiaotangshan, Beijing.

It is worth mentioning that China Sun Tzu Art of War Research Association positioned the application training of Sun Tzu's Art of War at a high level, and together with Peking University's International MBA, successfully organized the Sun Tzu Art of War Experience Strategy Teaching for the enterprise elites. This teaching received high attention from the media and was highly praised by the participants. The following are the actual feelings of Peking University students who have participated in this teaching.

Beijing Zhengrong Interweb Technology Co., Ltd. chairman Wei really said: through this strategy experience teaching, make me more awake to realize what is strategy, what is commercial war. Strategy is far beyond the war beyond the aggregation of wisdom and ideas. In The Art of War, Sun Tzu said, "The method of using military force, the whole country is the first, and breaking the country is the second. Therefore, the first military strategy, the second to cut down the traffic, the second to cut down the soldiers, and the next to attack the city" has been very classic strategic thinking to the height of the overall victory. In my opinion, BIMBA's strategic case teaching in the field battlefield provides us with a vast strategic thinking space, which makes us jump out of the limitations of modern business strategy operation. At the same time, we have absorbed the profoundness and meticulous integrity of the ancient thousands of years of conquest strategy, as well as the essence of China's long history and humanistic culture.

Gu Jing, Project Manager of Shell (China) Co Ltd, said: "I feel that I have gained a lot from studying previous successful cases, learning about military strategy theories, and communicating with various military experts during this event. Although I may not be able to copy any of Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" into my actual work, this kind of strategic way of thinking can help me analyze and solve problems.

Fang Zhu, general manager of China Netcom's general department, believes that the field experience can not only realize the essence of "Sun Tzu's Art of War", but also make oneself deep into the front line, and feel the decision-making as a leader will bring what kind of impact on the implementation of the front line, as decision-makers can not be on paper, and all the decisions should be made from the actual situation. Business competition and military strategy is from the same root.

3, the application of Sun Tzu's art of war results

There are many results in this regard, it is impossible to list, just in the scope of our contact with a representative selection of the results of the example of the introduction.

(1) in the publication of writings:

Domestic have China Sun Tzu Art of War Research Association, vice president of Wu Rusong's "Sun Tzu Art of War", the Association's vice president of Yu Ru Bo's "Sun Tzu Art of War in modern warfare", the Association's vice president of Hong Bing's "Sun Tzu Art of War and managerial commanders," the Association, deputy secretary general of the Huang Pumin, "the new reading of the Art of War," the Association, deputy secretary-general of the Liu Qing, the "Basic Principles of the Art of War Commercial Warfare", "the new readings of the Art of War", the Association's deputy secretary-general of the Liu Qing, "the basic principles of the Art of War Commercial Warfare". Fundamentals of the Art of War and Business Warfare", "The Art of War Experience Strategy Tutorial" edited by Hu Dayuan, Professor of International MBA at Peking University, and "The Art of War and Administration" by Guan Zheng, President of Suzhou Sun Wuzi Research Association. In addition, there are a large number of domestic works and papers on the application of Sun Tzu's Art of War, which are very valuable.

Foreign countries have Japanese entrepreneur Takeshi Ohashi who wrote "The Art of War Management". Malaysia Sun Tzu Art of War Research Society President Lu Luobat's "I and Sun Tzu", "Sun Tzu Art of War Scattered Essays", "The Iraq War in the eyes of Sun Zi", "Sun Tzu's Art of War and its general application in management", "Sun Tzu's Art of War and its general application in management", co-authored by Chen Wanhua, a professor of finance and industrial and commercial economics at Canada's McMaster University, and Chen Bingfu, a professor at Nankai University's Department of Management. An influential new book recently published in the U.S., Six Strategic Practices for Managers - Sun Tzu and the Art of Business: Six Strategic Principles for Managers (Sun Tzu and the Art of Business), is a comprehensive guide to the Art of War and its general application in management. Principles for Managers). It was written by an American named McNelly. He worked as a strategy consultant for IBM and was an officer in the U.S. Army. On the testimonial of this book there are these two paragraphs:

If you have ever felt that the mall is like a battlefield, this book, based on the teachings of ancient Chinese masters, will tell you a lot. --American Entrepreneur magazine.

Finally, someone has written a book that thoroughly explains how to apply Sun Tzu's The Art of War to running a business! This book made me ecstatic. --Brian Blum President and CEO of Great Eastern Telegraph Company, U.K.

(2) In terms of film and television production:

Shanghai Asia Television Art Center has filmed a large-scale feature art film, "China's Generals and Schools Century of Talking about Soldiering"; China Central Television (CCTV) broadcasts Sun Tzu's The Art of War and the Thirty-Six Stratagems; and Hong Kong's reportedly famous movie actor Jackie Chan is ready to invest 600 million to shoot the movie "The Art of War".

(3) In the development of cultural relics:

Because of the cultural driving effect of "The Art of War", the development of cultural relics related to the ancient Chinese military in the areas of famous ancient Chinese generals, ancient Chinese battlefields, and ancient Chinese weaponry is also showing a broad prospect. Zhang Wei of SiSense is an entrepreneur who has made special contributions to the cultural development of Sun Tzu's Art of War. He has concentrated one hundred prestigious calligraphers to write an extremely collectible "Art of War". He is now planning to build a theme park of Chinese culture including Sun Tzu's Art of War. Many copies of artifacts and souvenirs related to The Art of War hold a large share of the market. The Xiyuan Publishing House recently released a beautiful golden book on the Art of War, which has become a national gift book for foreigners. Sun Tzu's Art of War has been made into game software. Commemorative stamps of Sun Tzu and The Art of War have been launched in the society.

(4) In terms of specialty tourism:

The hometown of Sun Tzu, the place where he built his career, and the ancient and modern battlefields where he successfully used The Art of War have been noticed by the tourism industry, and all of them will become hot areas for tourism in the future. Huimin in Shandong has invested heavily in building the Sun Tzu Art of War City. Shandong Linyi silver bird mountain bamboo museum also presents a new look.

Two, Sun Tzu's art of war in the modern application of the main problems

Currently, Sun Tzu's art of war in the modern application of the law of war, there is a great deal of achievement, there are a lot of problems, some of which is the understanding of, and some of which is in the process of modern application of the formation of the objective. We must pay attention to and spend great efforts to solve these problems, especially as soon as possible to solve those outstanding problems that have a significant impact on the overall situation. Otherwise, the modern application of Sun Tzu's Art of War will be led astray, and the valuable legacy left by our ancestors will be cut short.

Problem 1: Being presumptuous and always believing that foreign moons are rounder than one's own.

I am very saddened to see the phenomenon that some people in China do not care about Sun Tzu's Art of War when it is being talked about abroad. Some domestic experts, not even read "Sun Tzu's Art of War" read, on its comments, said it is useless, while the foreign "war theory", "sea power theory", "monarch theory" held up to the sky. In the minds of these people, Sun Tzu's Art of War does not even have a minimum status, how to talk about the application. On this phenomenon, a reporter has reported: "I visited the troops learned that some officers and soldiers, but do not know much about "Sun Tzu's Art of War", not enough research, and some even disdain. That modern warfare, especially high-tech local wars, the implementation of over-the-horizon precision strikes, and the warring states era is far away from the short combat, combat methods and forms have fundamentally changed, Sun Tzu's "Art of War" has become obsolete. This view is obviously one-sided."

We do not deny that Sun Tzu's Art of War has its historical limitations, and some of its expositions are not entirely applicable to modern times, and we also do not deny that some famous foreign writers have their unique features, but we can not thus deny the practical value of Sun Tzu's Art of War, and we can not ignore the universal guiding role of Sun Tzu's basic principles of the Art of War. We can not because of their own ancient knowledge and strategic knowledge of the shallow and lead to the wrong conclusion that Sun Tzu's art of war is "shallow".

Nowadays, the most important element of Sun Tzu's Art of War that we apply is his strategic thinking. Some foreigners, and even some Chinese, believe that strategy was born in a foreign country and not in China. They think that it was only in modern times that China introduced the word "strategy" from foreign countries. This is a wrong view. In fact, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, China had already formed a more systematic and complete strategic thinking. Chinese strategic thinking has already made a high degree of abstraction and generalization of the confrontation of forces, reaching the philosophical level, with very obvious dialectical and macroscopic thinking characteristics. Sun Tzu's The Art of War was already a mature work of strategic theory. The Three Strategies of Huangshi Gong" and "Huainan Zi - Military Strategies" have gone far beyond the scope of military affairs, revealing some of the deepest principles of strategy. In my book Analyzing the Principles of Chinese Strategy, I once said that the real strategy is in China. Chinese strategy is profound and profound. Some people are amazed and fascinated by the miracle of China's rapid economic development. What is the secret? Certainly, we cannot exclude the profound Chinese strategic thinking. I think that China has the most say when it comes to talking about strategy, and Chinese strategists are the teachers of Western strategists. We should not be presumptuous; we should have confidence. We need to build our own Chinese theory of strategy and train our own strategists in various fields.

There is an important article on the Internet that can help us understand this issue more y. The title of the article is "Looking East and Looking West, Who Will Promote Traditional Management Culture?". The article reads, "Who will promote the traditional management culture? The article reads: "Sun Tzu's Art of War, Analects of Confucius, Tao Te Ching, the wisdom of these ancient Chinese philosophers are being studied by yellow-haired, blue-eyed foreigners, and enshrined as a guideline for management; when domestic entrepreneurs will be the deification of the "foreign management" and tend to rush to, "foreigners", "foreigners", "foreigners", "foreigners", "foreigners", "foreigners", "foreigners", "foreigners", "foreigners", "foreigners". When the domestic entrepreneurs will be "foreign management" deification and rush, "foreigners" are digging our traditional Chinese cultural treasures, they one by one took up the "Sun Tzu Art of War", "The Analects of Confucius", "Tao Te Ching", the study of China's hundreds of schools of thought, and achieved great success. This is a very interesting phenomenon." "Today, while domestic entrepreneurs are reveling in the theories and practices of Western MBA management programs, their foreign counterparts are diving into how to apply ancient Eastern philosophical ideas to business management and strategic decision-making. According to a recent report in the Global Times, a small, unheard-of British company has been revitalized through the study of the Tao Te Ching, creating a 200 percent surge in profits, which has attracted the attention of several major British media outlets.

Problem 2: Low-level, vulgarization, the "big wisdom" and "small plans" confused.

Now, many people reduce Sun Tzu's Art of War to a very low level, linking it to some trivial matters of life and officialdom, and even linking it to the relationship between husband and wife, which makes this sacred text of military science vulgar. Some people think that this is the best application of Sun Tzu's art of war, which is the best embodiment of Sun Tzu's art of war with modern application value, in fact, this is the use of Sun Tzu's art of war askew, completely distorting Sun Wu Zi's original intention, is the defilement of Sun Tzu's art of war.

One of the reasons for this phenomenon is that these people simply do not understand the difference between "strategy" and "tactics". Strategy, is a kind of overall and long-term planning, is a kind of high-level rationality under the guidance of the use of the science and art of power, is a big wisdom; and strategy, is a lack of rational support and moral requirements of the use of fraud, is a small scheme. Strategy focuses on "big", planning big things, and strategy does not matter what size, what people or what level can be used; strategy emphasizes "to the positive, to the odd win", the unity of the odd and the positive, and strategy does not matter what odd and positive, as long as to achieve the purpose of what means or what trickery can be used. It does not matter what means or what tricks can be used as long as the goal is achieved. Since there is no clear distinction between "strategy" and "tactics", some people interpret Sun Tzu's Art of War in terms of a micro-practical concept of "small plans", and use the experience of the common people to interpret Sun Tzu's Art of War. Some people use a micro-practical concept of "small stratagems" to interpret the Art of War, and use some common people's experience to interpret the Art of War. For example, some publications confuse Sun Tzu's Art of War with the Thirty-Six Stratagems, and in some of these stratagems, such as "killing with a borrowed knife," "hiding a knife in a smile," "the beauty trick," "the bitter meat trick," and "the bitter meat trick," they use the concept of "small stratagems" to interpret Sun Tzu's Art of War, "The Bitter Meat Trick" and some other common tactics. There are even people who say that it is now outdated to talk about Sun Tzu's Art of War, and that the so-called "strategy" should be used as a substitute for Sun Tzu's Art of War. Therefore, we must make it clear that: Sun Tzu's Art of War is great wisdom, the "Way of Commander-in-Chief", the science of revealing the laws of competition with deep philosophical underpinnings, a kind of learning to understand and use at the strategic level, and the so-called "strategy" that is often talked about is not the same thing, and absolutely cannot be compared with the so-called "strategy". It is not the same thing, absolutely not comparable.

We can't understand the idea of "the war is based on fraud" one-sidedly. Using strategy without understanding it can be very harmful. Some experts have described a similar problem in Chinese companies, saying that the Chinese business community today has a very low level of sophistication when it comes to making

This is not a problem that can be solved by the use of strategy.