ABSTRACT
The arts of war, most often Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Clausewitz's On War , are used metaphorically for management as a war game. Of secondary popularity is the mirror of prince's tradition, which overlaps the arts of war literature, the most famous probably being Machiavelli's The Prince. For management purposes in fields other than the military, the significant actors and concepts of the text need to be translated analogously into actors and objects within the other sectors. Pheng and Fang and Lo et al. have done this for the industrial sector in terms that are easily translatable into the public realm of education. There are numerous works on the arts of war and mirrors of princes, that have more relevance as well as a closer correspondence to international relations that pertain today. Some of these are by military thinkers of the eighteenth century Frederick the Great's The Art of War, which includes sections on secrecy and deception.
