I finally got around to reading this the other day and I was absolutely floored by the wisdom of this book. Obviously it is a bit outdated and I don’t agree with everything but I feel like I’ve glimpsed into the mind of a warrior who truly understood combat. Did anyone else have a similar reaction?
How did you reach those conclusions? I didn’t get anything like that from the book.
That’s my point. Look behind the book.
Then we have a dude who wanted to be a Daimjo during the cvil war times but was born too late, so he beat up anyone that could provide a challenge, only really caring about strategies, then studdied Buddhism, art and tried to teach some pupils not to be idiots.
But that doesn’t answer my question. I’m no expert on his life but those are some pretty big claims so I’m just wondering if there’s any truth to them.
Sigh. Ok, so to answer your question: Yes, he did really understood combat.