This Side Toward Enemy

by Patrick McDermott

Supplement

Military service is long periods of boredom interupted by utter terror. For those boring times, this supplementary reading for my book This Side Toward Enemy might help fill the hours. For your further reading and research, I have placed Olive Drab links to more information or to Amazon.com where you can research or buy the source material.

The Art of War

by Sun Tzu

THE OLDEST MILITARY TREATISE IN THE WORLD

Translated from the Chinese with Introduction and Critical Notes

by LIONEL GILES, M.A.

Assistant in the Department of Oriental Printed Books and MSS. in the British Museum

“The Giles commentary”

First Published in 1910

CONTENTS

Front Matter

I. Laying Plans

II. Waging War

III. Attack by Stratagem

IV. Tactical Dispositions

V. Energy

VI. Weak Points and Strong

VII. Maneuvering

VIII. Variation in Tactics

IX. The Army on The March

X. Terrain

XI. The Nine Situations

XII. The Attack by Fire

XIII. The Use of Spies