BBC World Service:

It was written by the military scholar Sun Tzu about 2,500 years ago and still has tremendous relevance to war now.

Over the centuries it has been influential to both traditional armies and guerrilla fighters - the IRA, for instance, read it with interest and commanders in the first Gulf war and the recent war in Iraq have spoken of the influence of Sun Tzu on direct military operations and the intelligence cycle during extended wars.

But ultimately the moral of Sun Tzu's book is that the greatest leaders avoid war.

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