tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post8412418329300035513..comments2023-06-20T02:25:36.578-07:00Comments on The Scholar's Stage: Whence Springs a Strategic Canon?T. Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04621529800248145193noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-53119518017787105372013-08-23T14:39:29.688-07:002013-08-23T14:39:29.688-07:00@Al-
1. I would definitely consider Kautilaya'...@Al-<br /><br />1. I would <i>definitely</i> consider Kautilaya's <i> Arthasastra</i> a work of strategy of worth equal to anything the Chinese or Westerns produced. It certainly "counts." But in many respects it is a unique achievement, having neither antecedents nor successors. The <i>Arthasastra</i> is brilliant comet in a starless sky, a bright flash in a void that would remain T. Greerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04621529800248145193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-55577676901133998422013-07-24T14:28:02.521-07:002013-07-24T14:28:02.521-07:00Thinking about it, there are actually quite a few ...Thinking about it, there are actually quite a few extant Indic chronicles. The Javanese Pararaton and Desawarnana are chronicles whose contents can be used as history, with some provisos. Sri Lankan chronicles - the Mahavamsa and Culavamsa - purport to give a history of south Asia up to, IIRC, the early second millennium CE. There are also plenty of Pali chronicles and semi-historical texts p9https://www.blogger.com/profile/00424827703117675037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-44299257061027417502013-07-23T18:22:31.021-07:002013-07-23T18:22:31.021-07:00This is cool!This is cool!Altahttp://topconvertiblecarseatreviews.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-11960258778466562952013-07-23T14:59:52.100-07:002013-07-23T14:59:52.100-07:00The Indian Sanskrit tradition did produce at least...The Indian Sanskrit tradition did produce at least one historian - Kalhana, the twelfth century Sanskrit historian of the kings of Kashmir. But this may have been due to the influence of other societies. And I'm not sure if the first century BCE is a reasonable starting point for Indian influence in southeast Asia. There are Indian carnelian beads and carved lions in Thailand from the p9https://www.blogger.com/profile/00424827703117675037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-9824750487601785542013-05-01T11:44:07.014-07:002013-05-01T11:44:07.014-07:00Thanks for the wonderful, informative, insightful ...Thanks for the wonderful, informative, insightful and perceptive essay you have written.<br /><br />On the topic of comparing Western military theory with the Chinese, I would like to recommend 2 books from the Western Canon:<br /><br />Online source for Roman military officer Frontinus's Strategemata<br /><br />http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Frontinus/Strategemata/Thomas Chenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05083747317669192374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-2298349586791947042013-04-14T17:03:26.236-07:002013-04-14T17:03:26.236-07:00Readers should also see Lynn Rees' post, "...<b>Readers should also see Lynn Rees' post, <a href="http://thirdcops.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/the-western-strategic-tradition/" rel="nofollow">"The Western Strategic Tradition."</a> His comments and the resources he points to are a good addition to this discussion!</b>T. Greerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04621529800248145193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-85422022214445095972013-04-10T22:25:44.564-07:002013-04-10T22:25:44.564-07:00I hope that Mr. Luttawak's book is more nuance...I hope that Mr. Luttawak's book is more nuanced than <i>the Economist</i> makes him sound. Too many people conflate the entire Chinese strategic tradition with Sunzi. Even the <i>Seven Military Classics</i> are quite diverse, disagreeing on several counts. Tellingly, the Qin, who managed to end the era of warring states by conquering the lot of them, held fast to <a href="http://T. Greerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04621529800248145193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-64169025801391437522013-04-10T11:28:43.804-07:002013-04-10T11:28:43.804-07:00By the way, Edward Luttwak has launched a broadsid...By the way, Edward Luttwak has launched a broadside against Sun Tzu and Chinese strategic thought:<br /><br />"Coming in for criticism by name is Sun Tzu, whose writings of 2,500 years ago, including "The Art of War", are the main source of what Mr Luttwak calls “the flawed principles of ancient unwisdom”. He grants that the cunning statecraft, stratagems for deception and breviosityhttp://breviosity.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com