Compare and Contrast Sun Tzu and Clausewitz History Essay
Summary In head-to-head comparison, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu have been criticized for their individual notions of genius and promises of victory, respectively. Yet both criticisms are irrelevant because they misunderstand both Clausewitz's intellectual environment and the cultural environment of ancient China in which Sun Tzu wrote. In this article, Sun Tzu's writings are organized as a list of commandments between titles such as "The Nine Varieties of Terrain." Clausewitz's writing takes a methodical approach with specific chapters such as 'Flank Positions and Entrenched Camps' and 'Attacks on Swamps, Flooded Areas and Forests', as if trying to take every possible variable into account.,