Mathematical Wars

A scientific approach to the art of war

De: Liqiu Mao

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Have you ever wondered why conflicts are won or lost? What are the critical decisions that leaders can make to turn the fate of a conflict in their favorable direction?
According to the Author, a theoretical physicist (PhD), often conflicts are lost because the decisions are not taken based on data and pure logical arguments, but they are too often based on feelings or abstract political views. However, due to the current geopolitical world, where no power is any longer predominant, but we are going through a new cold war characterized by several powerful countries like USA, China, Russia, India, EU which will want to play a role in the geopolitical map.
In this situation, the necessity to take the right decision based on empirical facts become even more crucial.
The present book aims into becoming a modern mathematical version of the “Art of War” masterpiece written by Sun Tzu. It presents several mathematical / physical models that can be used to predict several military strategical aspects and scenarios. For each strategy, similarities with real world cases are being made. Typical simulations showing the outcome of the war scenery are also showed, explaining the outcome is simple words that not only fanatics of geopolitics or military history understand, but also the average person interested in this topic.
Keep in mind: even the strongest army can be defeated by the right use of simple tools and strategy, how the famous story of David and Goliath teaches us!