Word: boorman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Citing instances from Mao's writings in which he refers directly to wei-ch'i strategy, Boorman said, 'It would be very helpful for American policy makers to have a rudimentary knowledge of the game," which is played throughout South Asia...
...Boorman's main arguments is Manchuria proved disastrous against the Maoist, wei-ch'i influenced, strategy...
...Today, Boorman believes, the Americans in Vietnam are repeating many of the errors made in China 25 years...
Born in Peking in 1949, Boorman had no formal education before coming to Harvard, though he had completed most of the book. He is concentrating in Applied that Chiang Kai-shek's Western-style tactic of concentrating massive forces in Mathematics and plans to do graduate work in philosophy...
...United States wei-ch'i, played in a type of checkerboard with flat stone pieces, is usually known by its Japanese name, "go." Boorman said he rarely plays it, and is interested in it chiefly as "a theoretical model of strategy...