{\b Sun-Tzu}.

Born and died in the 4th Century BC

Sun-Tzu's The Art Of War, or Ping-fa, is one of the most ancient of all tracts 
on warfare and strategy. It is marked in particular by an insistence upon the 
impossibility of separating questions of military strategy from wider 
political questions. In more modern times the tract has remained important: it 
was used by, among others, the Chinese Communist army in the wars against both 
Japan, from 1931 to 1945, and the anti-Communist Chinese nationalists.