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Sun Tzu the greatest strategist of Ancient China

Alexander the Great: the warrior king, whose brutal tactics carved out one of the largest empires in history.

SUN TZU: WEIGHT-160 LBS  HEIGHT-5'7"   YEAR-544-496 BCE   WEAPONS: SHORT RANGE-JIAN  MED RANGE-ZHUA  LONG RANGE-CHU KO NU   SPECIAL-HUO CHIEN

Sun Tzu was an ancient Chinese general, strategist, and philosopher. He istraditionally believed to be the author of The Art of War, an influential ancient Chinese book on military strategy which is considered to be a prime example of Taoist thinking. Sun Tzu has had a significant impact on Asian history and culture, and his work continues to influence both Asian and Western culture and politics.

Sun Tzu's homeland (the state of Wu) was under threat from the state of Chu. Chu's army of 300,000 was lead by a greedy, aggressive, and corrupt prime minister named Nan Wua. Sun Tzu trained and led an army of only 30,000 men into a war of resistence against Chu. Sun Tzu devised effecient, effective, and lethal strategies in the war and overcame all odds. He was able to kill Nan Wua and defeated the Chu army. These strategies are now echoing loudly in our era (in sports, in politics, in military, and in bussiness).

ALEXANDER THE GREAT: WEIGHT-155 LBS  HEIGHT-5'7"   YEAR-340-325 BCE   WEAPONS: SHORT RANGE-KOPIS   MED RANGE-XYSTON   LONG RANGE-GASTROPHETES   SPECIAL-BALLISTA

Alexander III of Macedon (20 July 356 BC- 10 June 323 BC), better known as Alexander the Great was born to Philip II of Macedon. Tutored by the famous Greek philosopher Aristotle, Alexander succeeded his father following his assassination, when Alexander was only 20 years old.

During the next 13 years, Alexander was undefeated in battle and created the largest empire the world had seen up until that time. It incorporated most of modern Greece and Egypt, the former Persian Empire, and reached to the western most parts of India. Had his soldiers not revolted at this point, Alexander may have continued expanding his empire eastward.

Alexander was well-known for being a brilliant strategist. When confronted with sythed chariots Alexander, realizing that the vehicles were already cumbersome, devised a method to increase this disadvantage. At the last second, his soldiers formed a U-shape so that the chariots would become trapped by the bodies of the soldiers they killed, leaving the charioteers at the mercy of the Macedonian xystons﻿.

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