Sun Tzu, The Art of War Military General Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War' is an ancient Chinese military treatise outlining the strategies and tactics of warfare. It has been the definitive work on warfare for 2,000years Niccol� Machiavelli's 'Seven Books on The Art of War'.This edition also offers a second war classic: Machiavelli's Seven Books on the Art of War. The book is divided into seven chapters, in the form of a series of dialogues in the Orti Oricellari, gardens built in the 1490s for Florentine aristocrats to engage in discussion.