Warfare of the Ancient Chinese and Roman Societies

Warfare of the Ancient Chinese and Roman Societies

Introduction

Wars and battles of the Ancient Chinese and Roman societies 500-1500 years had different approach dealing with weapons, equipment, fighting techniques and tactics of soldiers in Western Europe and the Orient. That distant time, often referred to as the “Age of Chivalry”, i.e. heavily armed, clad in the armor of the horsemen. Nevertheless, in this paper we will compare and contrast the approaches which were adopted by the Ancient Chinese and Roman societies, as both slightly differ with their techniques.

Discussion

Ancient Chinese approach to Warfare

There were around 36 strategies adopted by the ancient Chinese. However, these 36 strategies are a priceless contribution of an ancient China to the rest of the world. They are nothing rather an ancient Chinese proverbs collection. They are in the nature of strategies which are regarded as one of the trickiest in all ages all over the world. These strategies contract with the issues that comprises of diplomacy, politics and most significantly espionage. These strategies comprises of various battlefield tactics with a unique features in the area of psychological warfare. These strategies assist ancient china to win over the enemies by dejection of their morale, confidence and courage. Occasionally, these strategies demolish the wisdom of the enemy, as well.  The famous approaches used by the ancient Chinese are as followed:

Double cross

Frame job

Bait and switch

Hide the Dagger behind a Smile

Kill With a borrowed sword

Toss out a brick to attract Jade

These strategies were used in the ancient China in different situations with the objective to win the battle from the enemy in order to gain victory. These strategies are timeless and perhaps other countries can take advantages of it. Each 36 strategies had a unique feature due to which they were successful in winning the war and earned combat powerful among the countries. True mastery is to win without combat and the without fighting is the acme of perfection. The real problems lie was in the strategies of Chinese psychology. The real question regarding the China's “Science of Victory” is not related to achieve victory which they deserve it.

From the above we can conclude that China's strategy is united in a very different way, even at first sight we can distinguishes between the incompatible ideas and values. There was an element of ethical and spiritual, because it required the long-term strategist and ...