The Reflection

The Art Of War becomes a reflection of the humans soul. The book speaks in terms if war, but if one examines, it can be interpreted differently. All the chapters of the book cover a facet of combat chronologically, starting with preparations, organization, combat, and so on, later deepening into the being “effective” at always winning. One may think that eventually it is a reflection of our soul but related to any kind of human organization.
As armies prepare for battle, learning, training, having discipline and receiving orders, humans do building ourselves for life when we are infants. We need innovative, intelligent and able leaders to redirect our societies, armies as well need them. Combat can be interpreted as life, against us and others in the path to happiness and succeeding. At battle we need to kill our opponent as fast and effectively as possible, understand the means to kill him, and to deal with our resources. We need to establish firm leaderships for an organization of our armies and to preserve liberty and authority.
When fighting we desperately call for some tools. As how to prepare the battle literally, explained in the book as “planning a siege.” Strategic fighting becomes our fullest and most important advantage on war, we have to manage the conditions we have or create our own positive conditions. Finally we have to know how and when to attack and defend, as there is only the appropriate time for everything. I call on these words to be true, for the welfare is inside, “Military action is important to the nation - it is the ground of death and life, the path of survival and destruction, so it is imperative to examine it.” –Master Sun, page 1, The Art Of War.