The Art of War in 7 Charts — theatlantic.com

The Art of War may be one of the most adaptable books of the past two millennia. There's an Art of War for small businesses. There's an Art of War for dating. There's even an Art of War for librarians. According to Jessica Hagy, author of the newest version, The Art of War Visualized, the book has spawned so many interpretations because it can be read as not really being about war at all. "It's about creative problem-solving," Hagy told me. Hagy, who doodles the quasi-mathematical logic of human foibles on the popular blog Indexed, found three copies of Sun Tzu's classic among college textbooks and Tom Clancy novels while cleaning out her basement last year, and she saw in its short verses the kind of logic she likes to draw, as in this recent example from Indexed:

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