But the vast empty car park outside the Art of War City and its near-deserted courtyards suggest the town is struggling.
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The essence of China's thinking about cyber warfare is the concept of shi, he says, first introduced in Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" about 2, 500 years ago.
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Strategic advantage (shih), a central feature of the Art of War, connotes the release of latent energy, both physical and psychological, in order to ride the forces of circumstances to victory.
In the United States, the National Defense University (NDU), the service schools, and the command and staff colleges all teach the Art of War as a part of the core curriculum.
He never hid his brashness, teaching a course at Columbia University called "Corporate Raiding--The Art of War, " and was one of the inspirations for the fictional Gordon Gekko character of the Wall Street movies.
This budget-driven concept is understood by serious students of the art of war for what it is: a formula for reduced U.S. influence and ability to deter conflicts and potentially serious combat losses and perhaps even defeat.
When facing a powerful opponent on a field of combat Sun Tzu advises, in the Art of War, to attack the weakest points.
Which is why some of its greatest works of art are the accoutrements of war.
Chan first had the idea of adapting Art of War during the 1991 Gulf War, said To.
In these peaceful days the Russians do not have the gall to say that the art works were the spoils of war.
Sadly, though, while the following list of the world's greatest post-war art thefts reveals that most of the work stolen from museums, galleries and private collections has been returned, many are still missing.
Born in Dundee in 1922, William Turnbull was never to become a household name but was at the forefront of British art in the post war period.
America has been both proud and defensive about the flowering of its art in the post-war years.
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Her most recent exhibition, called 'Fragmented', which is on display in the Art Gallery of Regina explorers the islands Nazi occupation during World War II.
Three months later, Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo, and interest in buying art collapsed with the first shots of World War I.
Since that time countless thousands of works of major and minor art have been stolen, whether by professional thieves or as the result of war.
The other will reflect the practices of art-market professionals, amassing a war chest for opportunistic buying.
Opera shows are staged in former swimming pools, contemporary art is displayed on the scruffy walls of World War II bunkers and open air raves are held in abandoned spy towers.
The estate features 300 works of art, featuring post-war and contemporary European and American artists.
"One of the very few ways that we are able to redress the awful legacy of war is to return stolen art to its rightful owners so it can be shared and enjoyed, "said U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.
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Rumour, myth and innuendo have it that Hitler was so impressed by both the view down the Arno and the collection of art that it was the only bridge not blown up by German troops as they retreated during World War II.
London (CNN) -- A Pablo Picasso painting given to the Greek people in recognition of their resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II has been stolen from the National Art Gallery in Athens.
Mr Ely has since turned the chunk of statue into a piece of war relic art he hopes to sell to raise money for military charities and groups, including Birmingham's Royal Centre for Defence Medicine which treats wounded soldiers.
From the Chrysler Building in New York to the pastel hotels of Miami Beach and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Art Deco reshaped architecture in the years before World War II -- though the term wasn't coined until the 1960s, drawn from the name of the 1925 Paris decorative-arts exhibition that popularized the style.
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Latin art is still viewed through the lens of stodgy, pre-World War II muralism.
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