Learning from Sun Tzu

Military Review, May-June, 2003 by Douglas M. McCready

(4.) Harry G. Summers, Jr., On Strategy: A Critical Analysis Of the Vietnam War (Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1982),1.

(5.) Ames, 111.

(6.) Ibid., 116.

(7.) James Bennett and David Rohde, "In Rubble of Refugee Camp, Bitter Lessons for 2 Enemies, "The New York Times, 21 April 2002, 1.

(8.) Griffith, 17.

(9.) Ames, 171.

(10.) Griffith, 97.

(11.) Ames, 171.

(12.) In Obeying Orders: Atrocity, Military Discipline & the Law of War (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1999), Mark J. Osiel offers a more symphatic reading of Sun Tzu's counsel That military leaders should disobey their civilian superiors Under certain circumstances (317). I think, however, that Sun Tzu approaches the subject with an understanding of civil-military Relations that Osiel would consider unacceptable.

(13.) Ames, 116.

(14.) Griffith, 88.

(15.) Ames, 113.

Chaplain (Colonel) Douglas M. McCready, U.S. Army Reserve, is the Installation Management Agency Chaplain, U.S. Training and Doctrine Command Chaplain 's Office. Fort Monroe, Virginia. He received a B.A. and an M.S. from the University of Pennsylvania a Ph.D. from Temple University, and is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. His assignments as chaplain include 2-111 Infantry Battalion, 28th Division Artillery, assistant division chaplain, and 28th Infantry Division (Mechanized), Pennsylvania National Guard Military Academy. and State Chaplain for the Pennsylvania National Guard.