October 20, 2000
Why Politics Resembles Warfare
Lee Atwater got tips on deception, campaign tactics, and opposition research from Sun Tzu's The Art of War. Newt Gingrich read military strategists like Clausewitz and urged colleagues to attend Army training seminars. Those bellicose politicos were on to something, according to John J. Pitney Jr., an associate professor of government at Claremont McKenna College. "Politics resembles warfare, so military literature can teach us something about political action," he
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