• DOI:10.1080/01495933.2014.897119
• Corpus ID: 154557121

Principles of Special Operations: Learning from Sun Tzu and Frontinus

@article{Wey2014PrinciplesOS,
  title={Principles of Special Operations: Learning from Sun Tzu and Frontinus},
  author={Adam Leong Kok Wey},
  journal={Comparative Strategy},
  year={2014},
  volume={33},
  pages={131 - 144}
}

• Adam Leong Kok Wey
• Published 15 March 2014
• Education
• Comparative Strategy

The principles espoused in Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sextus Iulius Frontinus's Stratagematon that have linkages with the practice of special operations warfare are examined in this article. The academic study of special operations within the field of strategy has been hindered by the lack of resources in strategic theories that explain how special operations work and succeed. This article presents the discovery of principles of special operations which has been vividly described in both of these classical texts but often overlooked, and these principles can be matched with the contemporary practice of special operations.