Science of War : Sun Tzu’s Art of War re-translated and re-considered, Paperback by Macdonald, Christopher, ISBN 9888422693, ISBN-13 9789888422692, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US For more than two thousand years strategists in China have followed a single, coherent system of military principles and teachings. In The Science of War, Christopher MacDonald tells how those principles and teachings first crystallized into the treatise attributed to Sun Tzu.