Long acknowledged as a classic text on strategy, Sun Tzu's emThe Art of Warem has been admired by leaders as diverse as Mao Zedong and General Norman Schwartzkopf. However, having been written two thousand years ago, the book can be somewhat daunting to the modern reader. pMark McNeilly, author of emSun Tzu and the Art of Businessem OUP, 2011, which made Sun Tzu accessible to the business executive, has extracted the six concepts most applicable to modern warfare, making them easy to understand and apply to military situations. Drawing on a wealth of fascinating historical examples, McNeilly shows how these six principles might be used in wars of the future---both conventional wars and terrorist conflicts---and how they can provide insight into current affairs, such as the war on terrorism and China's increasingly important strategic and military role in the world. pThis updated edition reflects on all that has happened in the past ten years, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,