03-09-2005, 12:24 AM
With apologies to Sun Tzu for twisting the name of his ageless work on statecraft, I wish to start a topic thats familiar territor for most IFites and BRites. In I-F we have touched upon some aspects of this through our Ithihasa-Purana, Indian History and Pre Modern Warfare threads but we must look deeper into the texts to reveal the very subtle and hidden wisdom of our ancient thought.
By the very title Arth (Meaning) of War, I wish to find out if we have a well thought out and comprehensive approach to War.....War and the whole baggage of war.
Things like why war, how and when to start a war, what justifies the war, whats the moral foundation of the conflict, how to *continue* the war till some sort of "decision" is reached......and the obvious post mortem of the conflict. A very good (maybe the only) Indian pointer to the whole process of conlict is the Mahabharata.
The question will become more clear after the reader carefully studies some insights from a BRF thread...I shall freely quote them in order in the following posts so as to create some sort of a synopsis on the idea. I will post the relevant stuff here with permission.......
Thanks.
By the very title Arth (Meaning) of War, I wish to find out if we have a well thought out and comprehensive approach to War.....War and the whole baggage of war.
Things like why war, how and when to start a war, what justifies the war, whats the moral foundation of the conflict, how to *continue* the war till some sort of "decision" is reached......and the obvious post mortem of the conflict. A very good (maybe the only) Indian pointer to the whole process of conlict is the Mahabharata.
The question will become more clear after the reader carefully studies some insights from a BRF thread...I shall freely quote them in order in the following posts so as to create some sort of a synopsis on the idea. I will post the relevant stuff here with permission.......
Thanks.