Art of WAR... 36 strategies.
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Anyone in here had used any of the 36 stratgies during your active time or even when you are in the reserve.
I had used 6 "Making a feint to the East But hitting out in the West" (Sheng Dong Ji Xi) and it worked very well.
The other i think most had used will be the 36 "Escape-the best scheme" (Zou Wei Shang Ji)
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I personally used the last of the 36 strategies often during active service. That is to avoid from becoming Sierra Kilo warriors! I am sure many military nuts here are familar with this as well!
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it's a good reference but dun worship it like bible
those days and modern days not relli the same lah.....gotta tweak......
are u going to the talk at SCCCI? -
haha... sai gang warriors...Originally posted by tankee1981:I personally used the last of the 36 strategies often during active service. That is to avoid from becoming Sierra Kilo warriors! I am sure many military nuts here are familar with this as well! -
Advantageous Strategies.
1. "Man Tian Guo Hai" Deceiving the heavens to cross the sea.
2. "Wei Wei Jiu Zhao" Besieging Wei to save Zhao.
3. "Jie Dao Sha Ren" Killing with a borrowed knife.
4. "Yi Yi Dai Lao" Conserving energy while the enemy tires himself out.
5. "Chen Hua Da Jie" Looting a house on fire.
6. "Sheng Dong Ji Xi" Making a feint to the east but hitting out in the west. -
Opportunistic Strategies.
7. "Wu Zhong Sheng You" Creating something out of nothing.
8. "An Du Chen Cang" Secret escape throught Chen Cang.
9. "Ge An Guan Huo" Observing the fire from the other side of the river.
10. "Xiao Li Cang Dao" A dagger sheathed in a smile.
11. "Li Dai Tao Jiang" The plum dies in the place of peach.
12. "Shun Shou Qian Yang" Staeling a goat along the way. -
Offensive Strategies.
13. "Da Cao Jing She" Hitting the grass to startle the snake.
14. "Jie Shi Huan Hun" Borrowing a cropse to resurrect a soul
15. "Diao Hu Li Shan" Luring a tiger away from it lair in the mountain
16. "Yu Qing Gu Zong" Releasing the enemy to recapture him later.
17. "Pao Zhuan Yin Yu" Tossing out a brick to get a jade.
18. "Qin Zei Qin Wang" Disband the bandits by arresting the leader. -
Confusion Strategies.
19. "Fu Di Chiu Xin" Pulling out the fire wood fom beneath the cauldron.
20. "Hun Shui Mo Yu" Catching the fish in troubled water.
21. "Jin Chan Tua Ke" Making an unnoticed escape like a golden cicada shedding its skin.
22. "Guan Men Zhuo Zei" Closed the door to catch the thief.
23. "Yuan Jiao Jin Di" Befriend the far and attack the near.
24. "Jia Tu Fa Guo" Borrow a passage to attack Guo. -
Deception Strategies.
25. "Tou liang Huan Zhu" Replace superior beams and pillars with inferiors ones.
26. "Zhi Sang Ma Huai" Pointing at the mulberry but scolding the locust tree.
27. "Jia Chi Bu Dain" Pretending to be insane but remaining smart.
28. "Shang Wu Chou Ti" Remove the ladder after the enemy ascend to the roof.
29. "Shu Shang Kai Hua" Deck the tree with flower.
30. "FAn Ke Wei Zhu" The guest take over as host. -
Desperate Strategies.
31. "Mei Ren Ji" Beauty scheme.
32. "Kong Chen Ji" Empty city scheme.
33. "Fan Jian Ji" Double agent scheme.
34. "Ku Rou Ji" Self injury scheme.
35. "Lian Huan Ji" A series of interconnected ploys.
36. "Zou Wei Shang Ji" Escape-the best scheme. -
6. "Sheng Dong Ji Xi" Making a feint to the east but hitting out in the west.
it was well used for D-day WWII. -
Well Done Joshua1975! Btw are there online chinese version of the 36 strategies? Actually there are many more war strategy books by the ancient chinese such as the world famous Sun Tze Art of War. One of them is the 'Huang Shi Gong',not so sure of the actual title but i read one of this in the comics form before!
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nope, not online.Originally posted by tankee1981:Well Done Joshua1975! Btw are there online chinese version of the 36 strategies? Actually there are many more war strategy books by the ancient chinese such as the world famous Sun Tze Art of War. One of them is the 'Huang Shi Gong',not so sure of the actual title but i read one of this in the comics form before!
36 strategies had a few version of it and some are not using the same verse, there is one "Yi Hua Jie Mu" some had used or replace it with
1.=> Confusion Strategies, 21. "Jin Chan Tua Ke" Making an unnoticed escape like a golden cicada shedding its skin.
2.=> Deception Strategies, 29. "Shu Shang Kai Hua" Deck the tree with flower. -
As was Desert Storm with the Marines.Originally posted by Joshua1975:6. "Sheng Dong Ji Xi" Making a feint to the east but hitting out in the west.
it was well used for D-day WWII. -
remember to combine Sun Zi's war strategies and 36 tricks ......
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the sheng dong ji xi is the most commonly used one.
But the others. What about this one? Cutting off your own route of escape, and destroying all your rations in order to make your troops fight to the last man?
Vietnamese used it once... Chained everyman to a tree, gave them lots of ammo, and told them the only way to get out alive was to kill all the americans. -
Should be "Zi Zhi Shi Di Er Hou Sheng"Originally posted by Shotgun:the sheng dong ji xi is the most commonly used one.
But the others. What about this one? Cutting off your own route of escape, and destroying all your rations in order to make your troops fight to the last man?
Vietnamese used it once... Chained everyman to a tree, gave them lots of ammo, and told them the only way to get out alive was to kill all the americans.
the list i give may have 6 main strategies and each have 6 diff sub ways or methods that make up the 36 strategies. it up to one who know the meaning and to his tactfulness to put it in full use.
tho it not often seen but some have just used 4 main and each has 9 sub.
nothing is fix in that 36 strategies and most of the time it used inter alia.
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The following is an interesting summary of the origin of the 36 strategems, courtesy of HBN from WAFF, enjoy.
PREFACE
"Of the thirty-six strategies, running away is the best choice." This is a familiar remark, in literary works as well as in real life, from people who want to get around a situation that they are unable to cope with for the moment. The expression first appeared in the official History of Southern Qi about fifteen hundred years ago. Since then, it gained increasing currency until an anonymous scholar (estimated a contemporary of late Ming or early Qing) laid out the entire thirty-six strategies in a small book called Secret Art of War: Thirty-Six Strategies. At first it circulated only in hand-written copies and did not find its way into any bibliography of military writing. First printed in 1941 by the Xinghua Printing House in Chengdu, it did not attract general attention until after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Apart from a preface and an afterword, the book falls conveniently into thirty-six sections, each consisting of the title, text, and comment of a strategy. The title invariably takes the form of a four-character idiom, which sometimes refers directly to a renowned battle in history. All the idioms have been in wide use among both the elite classes and the common people for at least hundreds of years; most have taken on diverse military imports. Therefore the title itself can elicit plentiful reminiscences in an average Chinese reader, who may interpret the ensuing text according to his or her own military know- ledge or experience. In fact, the text of each strategy, consisting of less than a dozen characters, is so condensed that one has to read one's own thoughts into it. More often than not, the text contains a quotation from the most revered classic of China, I Ching (Book of Changes). This is followed by a relatively lengthy comment, which explicate the text and cites one or two ancient battles to illustrate the application of the strategy.
The present book offers a precise translation of the title and text of each strategy. A purport, based mainly on the original comment but also incorporating ideas from other sources, then expounds the common usage of the titular idiom and its military connotations. This is sometimes followed by quotations from various ancient military works to further exemplify the strategy. The account of a historical battle or campaign featuring the successful application of the strategy makes up the final part of each section. All the stories are adapted mainly from official history records but may also draw upon miscellaneous writings of credit.
According to a recent incomplete survey, more than twenty-three hundred titles of military writing from ancient China have survived. About fifty of them are well known and still enjoy a broad readership among military leaders. They cover all aspects of ancient warfare: strategy and tactics, natural conditions in relation to war, manufacture and usage of weapons and gears, organisation and discipline of the armed forces, tactical formations, frontier defence, training of professional troops, and military history.
All the above subjects appeal to researchers in the history of ancient Chinese warfare, but those who look for ancient theories applicable in modern warfare generally prefer the books on strategy and tactics. In those works, one finds brilliant expositions on problems faced by military leaders of all times and cannot but marvel at the depth and scope attained by the ancient masters.
Though its technical side has undergone remarkable progress toward greater complexity and more dimensions, war as an art has certain fundamental truths that remain valid all through the ages. For instance, war is a political organ to achieve goals that cannot be brought about by peaceful means. A military leader builds up and maintains his strength and weakens that of his opponent, conceals his intentions and capabilities and endeavours to detect those of his opponent, avoids battle at his disadvantage and manoeuvres to achieve superiority at the focal points where he chooses to give battle. Modern technology has greatly transformed warfare, but generals and even line officers today often face the same problems that confronted their ancient counterparts. After all, war is launched, conducted, and terminated by humans; there- fore it conforms to certain intrinsic laws that are a projection of human nature. As long as human nature does not change, war as a human activity will follow some ageless rules in the course of time.
Secret Art of War: Thirty-Six Strategies was composed in conformity to the yin-yang doctrine formulated in I Ching. Six, the primal yin number, denotes secret ruses in military contexts, and six square means a whole bag of tricks. The summary of various strategies in terms of the yin-yang antithesis makes possible a simplistic treatment of the complex subject matter. Yin and yang represent an endless series of opposites in the universe; in warfare they are mainly embodied in the pair of xu (cowardice, weakness, disorder, hunger, fatigue, numerical inferiority, unpreparedness) and shi (bravery, strength, order, full stomach, leisure, numerical superiority, preparedness). Thus in Li Jing's Reply to Emperor Taizong of Tang (Tang Tai Zong Li Jing Wen Dui), the emperor observes, "In my opinion, the various military works contain nothing other than Sun Zi's Art of War, and the Art of War contains nothing other than xu and shi." Another familiar twosome is qi (extraordinary) and zheng (normal), whose relationship has been clarified in Sun Zi's well-known maxim, "Engage the enemy by your normal force and defeat it by your extraordinary forces."
Naturally, the transformation of modern warfare by technological innovations calls for a re-examination of the ancient rules. In fact, since ancient times the rules have always been flexible. They are not really rules but modes of thinking and call for the combination of common sense and extraordinary ruses, with which the military leader adjusts his decisions to the ever-changing situation in war. In this sense, the thirty-six strategies are thirty-six basic ideas distilled from military experiences in ancient Chinese warfare. Therefore they may serve to promote and activate rather than restrain military planning and decision-making today.