The Financial Genius That No One Talks About

Описание: You have read The Art of War wrong.

Everyone has. Every business guru quoting Sun Tzu on LinkedIn. Every military academy professor assigning the text to cadets. They all made the same mistake.

The Art of War is not a book about fighting. It is a book about not fighting. And the mechanism for not fighting is economic.

Sun Tzu calculated the daily cost of fielding 100,000 soldiers down to specific units of currency and grain. He argued that no country has ever profited from prolonged warfare. He built the oldest surviving systematic framework proving that warfare is a financial equation first and a military equation second.

His near-contemporary Guan Zhong took these principles and weaponized them. He collapsed rival states through price manipulation, trade dependency, and commodity control. No battles. No sieges. No armies. Pure economic warfare.

In this video, we trace the economic doctrine buried in Chapter 2 of The Art of War. We examine the 1972 discovery of the Yinqueshan bamboo slips that proved these passages were original to the text. We analyze the documented economic warfare campaigns of ancient China. And we connect this 2,500-year-old framework to the semiconductor bans, rare earth controls, and sanctions programs reshaping the global order today.

The chapter of Sun Tzu nobody reads explains the 21st century better than any international relations textbook.

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Introduction
2:32 Chapter 1: The Book Everyone Quotes and Nobody Understands
6:33 Chapter 2: The Bamboo Slips of Yinqueshan
30:38 Chapter 3: War as Financial Equation
14:18 Chapter 4: Guan Zhong and the Birth of Economic Warfare
18:59 Chapter 5: The Warring States Economic Arms Race
23:32 Chapter 6: Sun Tzu's Economics in the 21st Century

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