Liddell Hart’s 1954 Strategy, often deemed a companion piece to Sun-Tzu and Clausewitz’s work. Later texts that similarly discuss military strategy include Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz’s widely influential On War, written in the mid 19th-century following the Napoleonic wars and English soldier B. 380-316 BC) was rediscovered in the 1970s and draws from his ancestor’s military classic. : The Making of the First Known Tagalog Translation of Sun Tzu’s Classic. Purportedly a descendent, Sun Bin’s Art of War (c. Nevertheless, the records offer insight into contemporary names, places, and events, as well as a significant chunk of history both before and after the author’s time. 145 to 85 BC), although even ancient historians doubt the accuracy of his portrayal. These terse, aphoristic essays are unsurpassed in comprehensiveness and depth of understanding, examining not only battlefield maneuvers, but also relevant economic, political, and psychological factors.

Sun-Tzu is also mentioned by name in Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian (c. Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. Taoism is often dated back to Laozi’s seminal script The Way and its Power, which guides the true gentleman along the path to moral righteousness. Sun-Tzu’s approach to warfare bears similarities to Taoism’s belief in the possibility of achieving perfection in and harmony with all aspects of life, as well as its distaste for unnecessary bloodshed. The Art of War by Sun Tzu, the most important and most famous military treatise in Asia for the last two thousand years, with side-by-side translation and commentary, cross references, and PDF and text downloads of the full book.