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Originally Posted by freebeard
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Three hundred years.
The viable nation state would necessarily precede to writings of Sun Tzu. Hammurabi?
Euclid was a necessary precursor to your 1930s Zepplin engineers, not Sun Tzu. Here's a suggestion: Sun Tzu is superceded by the OODA Loop.
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Better to ask forgiveness... Move fast and break things. Flood the zone. |
Whoops! Made a pretty good dog's breakfast of the chronology.
Only about 150-years between Art of War and birth of Euclid.
The point I want to stress is that, Sun Tsu explains how a nation state evolves, which requires a surplus food supply, all 'needs' met, in order to create a 'privileged-class'/ patronage, with the luxury of time to sit around thinking about novel 'inventions' which serves the 'military industrial complex' if you will.
Euclid wasn't a dirt farmer living at a subsistence level, devoid of time other than scratching out a living every day until death.
In engineering or tribology you 'spy', you 'scout', you 'reconnoiter', you 'infiltrate', you 'sleep with the enemy', etc., 'intellectually'.