Sarah Paine

tactics instead of what they had been teaching was Soviet tactics, and will become the A course.

And if anyone can teach this, go ahead, because I don't know a damn thing about it.

Talk about being unprepared for seminar.

And then think about it.

Where are the Japanese actually fighting most of the time?

What is the country that most matters to them at the end of the day?

It would be China.

And that's not what their war colleges are studying.

Something's up here.

Now, they're clearly making a really bad net assessment about the United States.

Okay, this country also is known for lousy net assessments.

I don't believe ours about Vietnam was particularly good either.

And that's one part of the problem.

So here's my game plan for this evening.

I'm first going to talk about traditional Japanese theorists, and then it's going to be talking about Japanese practice.

If you have this belief system, how explanatory is it for practice?

This is my

game plan right now.

So the Japanese don't have just the one book like Sun Tzu's The Art of War or Clausewitz's On War.

What they have is Bushido, Code of the Samurai.