The 33 strategies of War by Robert Greene is an interesting look at human behavior in terms of preparing for conflict and the "arts & science of strategy". Greene outline these 33 strategies/tactics each in a chapter showing historical examples of how they worked and didn't work. Greene goes on to apply them to present day in a self help kinda manner (BS we could all do without).

I like this book for :
1)intriquing strategies and tactics people use
2)its numerous historical examples of how the strategies worked or fell flat.

I guess my complaints or things I found lacking in this book were:
1) Afghanistan does not have water/ship ports!!!-um landlocked dude-use a map!
2)A few of his examples, I really feltl the historical individual/country won out of sheer luck rather than calculated planning
3)Greene states arguments against learning strategy from a book.-WTF-why did you write one then?

Is that a book I could borrow?