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Article: Masters of War.(Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thought)(Review)
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- Parameters
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- September 22, 2001
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Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thought. By Michael I. Handel. 3d ed.; Portland, Ore.: Frank Cass, 2001.482 pages. $24.95.
Michael Handel's Masters of War is a work of stunning originality and intellectual depth. This third edition was published shortly before the author's untimely death earlier this year. The centerpiece of the book is a comparison of Carl von Clausewitz's On War with Sun Tzu's The Art of War. Using these two works, Handel convincingly demonstrates that there is no unique eastern or western approach to the art of war-that in fact the basic logic of strategy is universal, involving political direction and the correlation of ends and means. ...