Maybe. The art of war may be a good candidate as well. It is all games of power in the end. The only twist in modern dealings is that you have to maintain an id

Maybe. The art of war may be a good candidate as well. It is all games of power in the end. The only twist in modern dealings is that you have to maintain an identity of innocence while doing nasty things, but I guess deception like this has always been a key part of warfare. We just have a greater focus on the innocence game than ever before. Then again, there has always been questions of piety and alignment with the greater good. Things just look different now, but they are the same old games. It's like we are adding different numbers and claim it to be entirely different from previous calculations, but in the end it's the same game, just different characters.