title: Sun Pin: Military Methods (History and Warfare)
author:  Ralph D. Sawyer 
description: "They eat people and cook the bones, the officers have no thought to turn outside-- these are the troops of Sun Pin." This graphic description from the Shih Chin depicts the awesome army commanded by Sun Pin, a direct descendent-- probably the great-grandson-- of the legendary Sun Tzu. Sun Pin studied and adopted many of the ideas found in his predecessor's masterpiece, "The Art of War", but he also developed his own distinct strategic style suited to the changing conditions of his time, the fourth century B.C. <P>In addition to translating this "eight military classic", Ralph Sawyer has prepared insightful chapter-by-chapter commentaries and a vivid general introduction that describes Sun Pin's life and times, analyzes in detail Sun Pin's tactics in important battles, and compares Sun Tzu's strategic thinking with Sun Pin's.
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  ##  DEDICATION
  
  
  
  
  
  For NANCY WALLER, brave wife of a gallant Captain, and for the mothers and
  wives of all those men who fought and died in H.M.A.S. Perth and U.S.S.
  Houston in the Battle of Sunda Strait.
  
  
  
  
  
  ##  ACKNOWLEDGMENT
  
  
  
  
  
  This book—written with the invaluable co-operation and technical assistance of
  Commander (S) P. O. L. Owen, R.A.N. (Retired)—began among the stained pages of
  a ten-cent notebook which Owen kept during four