As Freud has suggested, the "good life," which is characterized by
deep and wide love and creative and productive work, that is also
guided by reason and ethics and is aesthetically pleasing, has been
the quest of philosophers, psychologists, and all "deep thinkers"
from time immemorial. The central premise of this book is that
there is an intimate, dynamic, and animating analogy between the
art and science of war, as practiced by the great classical
military strategists and generals, and the art and science of
living the "good life." Indeed, the masterful strategic,
operational, and tactical formulations developed by the two
greatest philosophers of war, the Chinese sage and military
thinker, Sun Tzu, author of the timeless work The Art of War, and
the Prussian military officer Carl von Clausewitz, author of the
magisterial On War, each maintain a direct relevance and
application to the art of living the "good life." By mining some of
the key insights from Sun Tzu and Clausewitz, and drawing from the
writings of the great strategists and generals from history
including Thucydides, Machiavelli and Napoleon, this book will
illuminate some of the underappreciated practical wisdom that is
immensely pertinent to the average person's everyday personal
struggle to live the "good life." It also incorporates useful
insights from more recent "master" military strategists like Alfred
Thayer Mahan, Julian Corbett and Mao TseTung, and contemporary
soldierscholars who have written on the nature of war,
counterinsurgency, and terrorism, including John Nagl, David
Kilcullen, and Rupert Smith. Military strategic theory, especially
when combined with a psychoanalytic sensibility, has much to offer
by way of guidance to leading the "good life," such as becoming a
better partner in a love relationship, being more efficient and
effective at work, prevailing in the face of adversity, making good
decisions when confronted with tough choices, as well as offering
insights for those working with challenging psychotherapy patients.
As General Omar N. Bradley aptly noted during the Second World War,
"This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given
one life and the decision is ours, whether to wait for
circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in
acting, to live."
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