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  • Kublai khan used the art of war and beat the Chinese into submission, probably would have be detrimental to there show

  • I tried to use the Art of War Philosophy in Call of Duty, Got my ass whooped.

  • @freedfighter96 You did not use it correctly. Understanding, and knowing, are two different things

  • @mensch454 Einstein also owned Japan, reason I say Einstein is because he is the one who invented the nuke, not America as a country.

  • i think this is an awesome documentary with very interesting facts and all,but seriously,its hard to watch with such cheesy,goofy and cheap acting =.=

  • @ulongkoror

    >most American documentaries

  • @ulongkoror seriously no man fights like that, crossbows(invented and used around that time) and spears were mostly used, not fucking CQB sword fight.

    History Channel is infamous for cheap reenactment and guests.

  • @mensch454 Yes, but the Tet Offensive was a massive failure for the North. They bordered on destruction. However, we'd lost the urge for winning a rather pointless (to us) war, so we quit, and the South was destroyed.

  • He didnt kill any women.He was slaughtering chickens.

  • THAT'S WHAT YOU GET YOU LAZY STACK OF SHIT FOR NOT DOING THE DISHES

  • Sun Tzu and the oncubines is of course a myth. But anyways, I recommend his book to everyone! Its one of the greatest books I have ever read. It will totally change your view of this world. You will understand that war is far from just "Spreading democracy" or "Fighting for freedom" as some politicans want us to believe.

    "All warfare is based on deception."

  • I read the Art of War yesterday. I realized how much of a flexible text it is. I couldn't believe that it used to be very exclusive.

  • does sun tzu teach tactics as well? 

  • @the23snake "The Art of War" is a very old book. It is about the philosophy of war. It does of course not have many tactics which can be used today since its so old. The Art of war is a great book and you should read it. It will change your view of this world and you will see that modernw ar is not just about 2Lets go and spread democracy" or "We want to help Iraqis against Saddam Husein".

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  • Revisionism at it's worst

  • smart chinese are smart

  • @OpenTheTrollGate good one sherlock!

  • toby bring me here

  • Am I crazy,...or does the actor playing Sun Tzu look Japanese? 4:40

  • 3:21 He should have just told the concubines that the penalty would be execution if they didn't comply. If afterwards they giggled,...you'd only have to execute one,...not two.

  • Anyone know how influential Sun Tzu's The Art of War is in China today?

  • sun tzu made war his bitch

  • go to sonshi.com if you are interested in reading the art of war for free.

  • Acient China was such a great power country, but now is ruined by communist goverment and culture revolution. Damn!!

  • @kinwai27271

    Wrong

    China wasn't ruined by the communist regime, China was ruined by failing to become industrialized nation during earlier period.

  • @kinwai27271 yet china is on the rise to be the worlds next superpower. there is no "damn"

  • my top 3 of world best military genius :

    1: sun tzu

    2: napoleon bornaparte

    3:alexander the great

  • @TheDaniiboy IMHO, it would be

    1: Sun Tzu

    2: Zhu Ge Liang

    3: Napoleon Buonaparte

  • @TheDaniiboy alexander the great was much before sun tzu!!and the words strategy and tactic are greek and used as they are in almost by all languanges!!greeks first implemented strategy and tactic and thats why still used by many languanges!!read greek military history and specifically thukidides!!u learn many about strategy anf generally about the war and still used today by armies like us and uk!!

  • @trommbas Warring States Period(which give birth to many tacticians, diplomats, and philosophers) is far earlier than Alexander, not gonna argue about Sun Tzu though, his identity is still debatable. :/

  • sun tzu takes no shit from anyone.

  • @gethsoftware ABSOLUTELY

  • wher do i get the soundtrack from?

  • @101 andrew you missed the whole point of the video. I will take anyone on been training since I was 8 I am 31 now. I look white but in fact i am not. This has nothing to do with race but Intelligence.

  • @101 andrew you missed the whole point of the vidoe. I will take anyone on been traing since I was 8 31 now. I look white but in fact i am not.

  • read the book it was epic

  • Sun Tzu was def. the greatest military genious of all time but id love to see how hed do going up against Romes mighty Legions. I believe the Roman Army was the greatest military force in all of history. Romes Legions smashed all who stood before them....

  • @TheEmcee1 Reminds of the classic debate between people who support Clausewitz and those who support Sun Tzu. Clausewitz philosophized that total-war should be used to crush the enemy as long as it achieves a political goal and has the support of the people. Sun Tzu argued that you should *never* wage total-war if you can avoid it, because the less strength and resources you need to win a battle, the more frightening and powerful an opponent you become. Both philosophies are awesome.

  • @TheEmcee1

    And Chinese crossbows can penetrate Roman shields from 300 metres away. Heck, the Chinese don't even need to fight the Romans; just cut their supply lines.

  • @TJPinoy 300 metresaway? doubt it. The chinese couldn't handle the roman army in the B.C. era; they'd probably be conquered just like everyone else.

  • @CorRomeister Oh serious? Then why must Europe and Americans Military Read it? Go wikipedia and see the history before commenting. Even Napoleon use it to expand the Territory of France.

  • @CorRomeister But still everything has its history. And no one knows. i am Sorry if i offended you.

  • @CorRomeister

    If you doubt it then I suggest you research it. The Chinese would overwhelm the Roman Empire even more swiftly in the B.C era. Qin Shi Huangdi would amass huge armies of supremely disciplined and extremely mobile forces numbering up to one million. At best, Rome could only make do with 400-500,000 legionaires which relied heavily on auxiliaries. The Qin killed 10,000,000 of their own people to unite China. Seeing that Romans are foreigners would lead to a war of extermination.

  • @CorRomeister

    why we say roman army is powerful, because they never faced a real powerful enemy。 But China not! the in 200 BC, the Unified Qing can take Roman easily. How many Romans can used in one battle? in Chinese History, a war without 100000 would not be considered as a war. Bai Qi the general of Qing killed 400K Prisoner during the battle of ChangPing.(just one battle) How many 400K will Gaius Julius Caesar have?

  • @meiyixin1988 I agree with you but numbers doesnt mean skill/equipment

  • @inuopx

    in old time. the numbers realy means the skill/equipment. without skill, how can you manage a huge army well? how can you make your order be heard by everyone? and how can you feed the army without the skill and equipment?

  • @meiyixin1988 To the West, Roman army is the greatest military ever existed. Western civilization was built primarily on Greek and Roman civilization. Rome is powerful but not always powerful. It was defeated in a number of battles like at Teutoburg Forest in 9AD by Germanic tribes and at Carrhae by the Parthians in 53BC. There were other armies and civilization that are as strong as Rome. In reality, a Roman army never faced a Chinese army as they never meet each other at all.

  • Haha im white.....most of our general and tacticianeers used this book

  • This video is shameful these so called scholars are pronouncing Sun Tzu name wrong! The way they are saying his name would translate to mountain pig!

  • I don't get how they are calling it "predictions" when it was more of a set of rules broken. When you don't play by the rules you die.

  • @TheUprisingNinja I think they mean predictions the way scientist makes predictions. If you do X, then Y will happen. Not in a fortune-telling kind of way.

  • So Sun Tzu needs to kill whores to make a point? Kinda like a serial murder who does the same today?

  • @ke4bss it was less about the whore and more about the seriousness of war and discipline

  • I love the history channel :)

  • That is wrong, Sun-tzu is pronounced "Sunzi" not "Sunzu"

  • the chinese may have wrote the book on war but it was the english who edited and published it

  • @101andrewj "the chinese MAY wrote the book...", you hate chinese, do you?

  • @owenoury1 when did i say i hate chinese... i was just saying they deffently dont currently understand the art of war as much as the modern white man

  • @101andrewj What do we have here? Go preach your white supremacist bullshit elsewhere you inbred trailer dwelling skinhead. Fuck you!

  • @101andrewj You whites can't even take on a bunch of half illiterate guys with rusty ak's in the middle east.

  • @akeriaks22 yeah, because of politics... you know what total war is right, or a war of attrition... if "whites" wanted too, they could turn the entire middle east into a toxic wasteland for the next 5 millenium.. the cavemen that they are fighting deffently want to do something like that, but could never...

  • @akeriaks22 LOL :D

  • @akeriaks22 haha neither can the rest of the world, yeah there illiterate but they have the coconuts to blow themselves up

  • @akeriaks22 i sad nao. *shoots self*

  • @akeriaks22 Politics my friend. If it wasn't for politics the middle-east would've been a crater by now.

  • @akeriaks22 You might want to stop talking before you get your ass kicked by some one, some where, some time.

  • @akeriaks22 we're not even taking them on. We're taking on their IEDs. The insurgents would never be toe-to-toe with the US in a full show of force. the US has many times the manpower, technology, and weaponry of the insurgents. All the insurgents do is set up IEDs in the hopes of chipping away at American morale until we leave. We lost more people on D-day than in this entire 10 years, both theaters. It just seems worse because it's televised.

  • @akeriaks22 Because they are so using traditional warfare tactics?.. (sarcasm -.-)

  • @akeriaks22 LMFAO <3

  • @akeriaks22 lol only marines. Only marines...

  • @akeriaks22 fucking racist piece of shit.

  • @NordenHonor Calling someone "White" is rascist? Are you high?

  • @akeriaks22 first of all i doubt u was ever in a armed combat situation or that u have the physically abialitys...you also seem not to understand much of warfar :> ...so i guess u are just one of many complaining slaves of the westerners ...try to act like a man and stop talking like a girl

  • @akeriaks22 THEN WHY DOSE MOST OF THE INNOVATION HAPPEN IN THE US

  • @thruthewormhole What innovation? I haven't seen much in terms of that here lately.

  • @akeriaks22 a gun is a gun and a bullet a bullet, are you saying someone who cant read cannot shoot a gun? Point and pull, all they need to know. Also, IEDs. BTW America is not just "Whites" so please. refrain from being an ignorant, worthless piece of shit.

  • @101andrewj "Modern" white man? LOL. Sorry buddy but your race with blonde hair and blue eyes is predicted to be extinct in two centuries.

  • @ThereISME2222 i sayd white, not aryan.. and when i say modern white man, i mean nations like america, canada, australia, and western europe... now i know that all these countrys are no longer just whites, but it is for the most part whites in command, and whites that layed down all the tactics that are still being used by these countrys today to control the world, that + all the historical proof deffently proves what i sayd to be correct... look up china 1942 and see how "good" at war they are

  • @ThereISME2222 - i think not.

    Try and get an Italian or German passport and see how difficult it is - not even turks have the ability to have a German passport. Why? They do not want foreigners. You have mistaken this with UK which you can be "born" in the UK and apply for a UK passport and no problem. However in the UK [which is still a socialist country] allow this. However as history as shown the white+yellow control the world, islam+cn is trying to indirect attack the west though.

  • @101andrewj Like the other guy said. If you fuckers understood war, then you shouldn't have made your white Europe multicultural. Now Europe is fucked and going to become an Islamic state very soon.

  • @101andrewj white and chiness r only races, races are a very useless facter in war

  • Sun tzu teaching can show a point for military skill in the world wisdom, strength, deception that is still around today of 2000 years have history of war

  • USA should invade and colonize the world. fuck china fuck muslim countries

    obama's pussy

  • Chinese Sun Tzu (Son Ja in Korean) was the best tactician of the day surpassing Hannibal and Alexander in his art of warfare. The only person I can think of that is on the level with Sun Tzu has to be one and only Napoleon Bonaparte. Both men 'almost' never lost a single battle. Alexander owed his victories purely to the well trained army and the art of Phalanx system, but Napoleon and Sun Tzu relied purely on their strategies and still won.

  • @UnitedKorean Interesting you say that as Napoleon openly said he intensively studied the Art of War and he owes many of his victories to it.

  • @UnitedKorean i do believe you are right but what about Julius Caesar and Genghis khan. 

  • Actully we dont owe money we give money to china because they make us all of our stuff that pretty much us written on everything....we give money to china which is one of the things that protects us from china just destroying america....chinas got us by our balls right now and if nuclear war happens with china u can just kiss your sorry ass goodbye :)

  • @PUR3A115TAR china aren't suicidal so they won't start anything but i think its rather nerve breaking to know that just one nations leader can go mental and order a nuclear attack to screw the rest of us in the world if psychopaths like the taliban or religious fanatical parties in any major country get power we are all fucked

  • @PUR3A115TAR I wouldn't be so sure about that, We both have Nuclear bombs but theirs was made in china.

  • This video is Propaganda. The USA owes so much Money to China that we have to acknowledge the East as being somehow better than the West. It is a shame that people are subjected to such propaganda over bad decisions of Government. I'm not buyin the Bull Shit.

  • Sun Tzu was a Asian, Alexander the Great.  That's all.

  • Chess is not about attrition, or glory. It is about winning. The entire goal of the game is to capture, not kill, the opponents King. Furthermore Chess games can end in a No victory for each player a Draw or Stalemate, where neither side wins. Chinese GO???

  • The Chess reference in this video is entirely Wrong! Chess is Not a game of attrition. Chess IS the ultimate War Game. It has NO equal. Chinese Go does not compare to Chess. Who can name the Worlds GO champion? The USA GO champion? or even the Womens GO champion? Ya can't. They don't exist. There IS a World/USA/Womens Chess champion. All the elements of GO are present in Chess. Go is just a game, Chess is THE game.

  • @ke4bss don't be offended by this series yes chess is the ultimate game but remember war is not a game there is no such thing as fair in chess you can see your opponents side and your own everything is out in the open a fair game decided by intellect, go is more tricky as nothing is set stone other than the area where you play in war don't expect your enemies position to be given to you and fight a fair fight,

  • @5H4K490 Don't get me wrong. I am not beating up GO or favoring Chess. But this series described Chess wrong and I can guess they got GO wrong as well. To me it just shows how little the so-called experts don't know anything.

  • @ke4bss well it wasn't completely attrition is one aspect of chess when both sides start on level footing one side tries to gain the advantage by killing of the other pieces before capturing the king that's what makes chess great the incredible amount of strategy needed to win, there description of go right you have to acquire more space than your opponent while being free to place your pieces where you see fit there weren't claiming one is better than the other but rather which suits war best

  • Sun Tzu is NOT the be all end all to warfare, despite this video series. His lessons are something for a commander to consider but, to say not to follow his principles will lead to defeat is False. Warfare changes over time. What worked on the battlefield in His day may not work well today or for all time.

  • gossebumps man!

  • the 3 principles definitely apply to starcraft

  • good commentary but bad reenactment XP

  • " Vietnam is still with us. It has created doubts about American judgment, about American credibility, about

    American power -- not only at home, but throughout the world.

    It has poisoned our domestic debate. So we paid an exorbitant price for the decisions that were made

    in good faith and for good purpose. "

    -- Henry Kissinger in Stanley Karnow's Vietnam: A History

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  • i use this when i try to win a conversation,or just to get out of it

  • Great, great work! Also if you have time, check out 'the mind of a leader animation series: the art of war'. It's cool.

  • The Art of War is effective in wars, politics, business, sports, and even teaching, but it has no effect in chess... the real man's sport!!! :D

  • @furyberserk of course it does. I've lost because I attacked with a lot of strength alone (doubled rooks and bishops) and if you make it obvious what you want to attack (the F7 square) if the person ISNT GOOD, they can defend it.

  • CAN YOU USE THIS IN SCHOOL OR WORK??

  • I read the art of war. I apply it everyday, and it helps in thriving in life.

  • how is the art of war philosophy relivant to today???

  • @chingon711

    depends on what your doing, but it will always be relevant, timeless

  • I learned The art of war when i was 5 years old just like other chinese kids,I practicae them when i was 16 years old,Me and my father had beaten every single business competitors using The war of War.One of most useful strategy:Feint east, strike west.This is also why Asian are good in strategy games.

  • Dear bearchild69

    WTF

    

  • Chuck Norris doesn't listen to Sun Tzu. Sun Tzu listens to Chuck Norris.

    Therefore The Art of War principles are not applicable against Chuck Norris.

  • shogun total war

  • 24 viewers are vietnam vets

  • @leklek69

    shut up

  • @leklek69  LOL nice

  • Interesting! If you like The art of War – check out the animated moderne version of chapter 2: The mind of a leader animation series Sun Tzu the art of war.

  • @alibenhaal where can you find it

  • @king78802 the art of war is a written text, you can find the book at any bookstore, I bought mines for five bucks, I hope this was helpful and remember undestanding human nature will lead you to understand how this man wrote this text

  • It simpel but well structured. Search on youtube: ‘The mind of a leader – the art of war’ and you will find it.

  • Chu, Wu and Sun Tzu... China is awsome!

  • @Urchino1337 It's cool to learn about the art of war

  • too bad you can use hit and run ractic in shogun 2 total war

  • I did all the things Sun Tzu said in his book in my school , and I got to tell you...

    I scared the living crap out of other kids , and narrowly escaped suspension .

    Funny thing was they couldn't prove it was me because the dumb asses that piss me off are also known to be high one third of the week . o.o

  • @Kisukekiralissohot What did u do? Was is that Bad?

  • @smoke135 I was angry at the time , and I framed them dealing drugs , no one did , but they do smoke a lot . and I ended up blackmailing them . they freaked out , told the counselor , and since they are known to smoke , she didn't belive them .

    also , subscribe to me please . (:

    I'm just starting making videos . thanks !

  • @Kisukekiralissohot you sound like a real douche...Thats not war thats snitching and lying. I bet everybody at your school knows it to so your reputation is shot. You dont have the backing of your state thats what Sun Tzu would say....

  • @TheBrandNewCrew You can't actually say I was A douche . as I said before , I was angry at the time , which you could say my emotions got the best of me , but I accept whichever answer . And besides , during that entire time , I planned this entire thing out knowing that I would win . You could call it arrogance and complacency , but It worked didn't it ? and you have no idea how frustrating those bastards were .

  • I need to use this in Advanced Pharmacology

  • Hey people! Same fucking thing is happening right now in Afghanistan! Do you think the Talibans care about you Americas so-called mighty drones? Fucking no because they use propagandas and guerrilla tactics.

    Beat that Yankees! Same shits are repeating like Vietnam, Somalia and Iraq Wars! One simple answer why the US keep losing wars since WW2: no wills!

  • @hck112 You do realize we won in iraq we have never lost a battle in vietnam afghanistan and you cant declare war on somolia when they have no goverment but good try

  • 9:38 That's how it would've been in those days.

  • NONSENSICAL ORIENTALISM!!! Why is China extremely BACKWARD?????Why the West strategies and tactics won and HUMILIATED THE CHINESE in the XIX CENTURY?????

  • @tekatetikitiki

    Look at China today. The west is sending MONEY to them to buy goods, while the WEST buys the goods, the Chinese keeps the profits and invests the money in their country and INVESTS in other countries for oil, minerals while the west fights pointless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan the Chinese befriend countries. The west will loose the wars in the islamic nations. While the Chinese befriend Pakistan, Indonesia, South America and Africa.

  • @yoyuepz:Still, CHAUVINISTIC chinese culture(the Han) IS LIKE 30 YEARS BEHIND IN SATELITE TECHNOLOGY,AND WEAPONS........THE WEST has been educating hungry striken chinese students and scientists FOR FREE.....they go back to BACKWARD CHINA, and still they remain BACKWARD. Sorry, that's simply THE TRUTH.

  • @tekatetikitiki

    they copy or as they say they "learn" from the west as they "learn" from the russians to send people up into space which the russians "learned" from the germans. You been to china? Go there and then you see how much its changed in the past 5 years! The chinese students who study in the west are generally from wealthy parents which can afford the fees to send their sons or daughters to the west to be educated and take this back to china for them to copy or learn that is the truth

  • @yoyuepz: O.K..... you say so.

  • This is China why the hell is a japanese song in the intro?

  • But the art of war can be expected.

    Narva 1700

    8000 Swedish men attackt 40000-10000 russian soldiers.

    The russian burned everthing about the army so tha army should not be so glorius.

    The russians did not expect it. 20 000 capured . 6000-7000 dead.

    Swedish losses:: 677-dead 500 wounded. Returned to action later. and 700 wounded who did not returned.

  • I like how they say Sun Tzu foretold the victories and defeat of nations 200 years after.

  • i hate how they pretend like the art of war is some sort of nostradamus prophecies. god i hate the history channel with a passion

  • "Sun Tzu said that... And I think he knows a little bit more about fighting than you do pal, BECAUSE HE INVENTED IT! And then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honour!"

  • wu chu my stick

  • Lol foight or die,some motivation,FOIGHT FOIGHT

  • The incident witht he concubines is just a myth.

    Anyways Sun Tzu is awesome.

  • @VictumRoManius ok but if it was real would the concubines have acted differently?

  • CoD? Seriously? What would apply? "just run around and shoot at stuff and you will win"

    If you want real military strategy play hearts of iron.

    That game will whoop your ass

  • A victourious general, makes himself unbeatable and then seeks battle, while most generals seek battle and then try to win.

    - Master Sun Tzu.

    I swear you will not regret to read this book! It will totally change your view about todays politics and warfare. (There is no good or evil in war... Only the victor.)

  • The beginning tale of how The Art of War came to be is fictional. The volume was written by the general after his retirement, no way he was brought back to the service of another after he wrote them (and lived long enough for any kings to read and understand them for that matter).

  • Chinese history >>>>>>>>>>>>> American history.

  • I think this History Channel introduction to the Art of War is entirely made up to demonize the Chinese people n culture. I don't remember reading or hearing any such cruel thing related to the Art of War application. Killing women n concubines in royal court is NO fun. Even King n Emperor would find scaring women is no fun.Can the White Europeans stop demonizing Chinese n look into their own history for cruel things?

  • @UpNFamish This is real, Sun Tzu did this, kill those two women, than set up a real famale army.

  • @saoyasou1 so I read it from a Chinese video.Stay out of harm ways is the Golden Rule for All Chinese people for All times in China. Don't fight authority with your life.Don't sacrifice unless it is absolutely needed.

  • @UpNfamish2 This is the History Channel, so don't expect any fairness or credibility. It's hollywood version of history.

  • Ehhh cod has no strategy so therefore the art of war will not work,

  • @farcry2outlaw Well, there's one strategy from the Art of War that applies to COD. " Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend; march swiftly to places where you are not expected." AKA camping :)

  • @ELcapalla2 the only strategy applied to COD

  • the Art of War isn't just about how to win in war but is the Art of Winning. you apply Sun Tzu's Art of War to everyday conflicts, you will never loose.

  • @IIWantedII

    you know i came back from china and the guy next to me on the plane agreed that with chinese people it is like playing strategic moves.. deep thinking and very calculated people. I find the west are stupid.....)))))))

  • @yoyuepz ofcourse the west is stupid, atm though. BTW im african american and can admitt when my country is making stupid decisions. why american is about to be surpassed by china in economics and why we are falling prey to Osama.

  • @IIWantedII Yes, and you will also never lose. 

  • @IIWantedII and if the other guy also uses it,who wins?

  • @mskidi the guy who executes sun tzu's sayings more perfectly and tactically.

  • @IIWantedII and if both execute it perfectly and tactically?

  • @mskidi Then who ever has a bigger, better trained, and well equiped army. Lol idk, by this point i wish sun tzu came back to life just to answer our hundred million questions.

  • @IIWantedII: WINNING??????????? You and CHARLIE SHEEN must have read that book several times by now.........." I'M WINNING!!!!!!!!!!!".

  • @tekatetikitiki What?

  • @IIWantedII lose*