The Art of Victory : Threshold Editions : 9781416524786 : 1416524789 : 04 Sep 2007 : The Art of Victory begins with a single act...is the principal goal of a society...is never created or sustained by weakness...can never be total, and this is its beauty...cannot be bought or sold; it can only be won.... Not since Sun-tzu's The Art of War has a blueprint for success offered so much to so many, with timeless lessons for personal, corporate, and societal victory in our age of constant change and inevitable conflict. Award-winning historian and global strategist Gregory R. Copley draws from decades of experience advising political and military leadership to offer a holistic and balanced view of simple success strategies, with 28 maxims for survival and prosperity in the advancing wave of social, technological, and environmental transformation we now face.