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2019-11-07 Government

Towards a More Prudent American Grand Strategy

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Posted by M. Murcek 2019-11-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 I've not figured out in line comments, so here it is:

The forever wars against everyone else are designed to distract you from the gummint's forever war against you.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-11-07 00:58|| 2019-11-07 00:58|| Front Page Top

#2 "The expert community is engaged, for the first time in a long time, in a healthy conversation about the future of U.S. grand strategy."

Too bad that our best schools have made their flagship Grand Strategy course into an Alinsky-soaked identity-politics Shitshow....

Posted by Lex 2019-11-07 01:02|| 2019-11-07 01:02|| Front Page Top

#3 In a huge, shocking story, a career diplomat was fired

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-07 01:02|| 2019-11-07 01:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Trump doesn't have a strategy or a policy.

He has principles and a arsenal of "opportunities" for use when his enemies make their moves.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-11-07 07:19|| 2019-11-07 07:19|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ Yep. We can't close down the "School of Foreign Policy" business fast enough.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-11-07 07:57|| 2019-11-07 07:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Grand Strategy for the cold war slowly mutated into we can't win, then Reagan appeared and crushed the Soviets in three terms.

Grand Strategy since the cold war was never properly developed beyond thousand points of light which appears to mean letting bad guys be bad and sending US troops to die in sandy hell-holes. The strategy could use a bit of work.

Posted by rjschwarz 2019-11-07 09:51|| 2019-11-07 09:51|| Front Page Top

#7 which appears to mean letting bad guys be bad and sending US troops to die in sandy hell-holes.

Yes, and recognizing the spark of divinity in every MS-13 member, too.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-11-07 11:19|| 2019-11-07 11:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Grand Strategy can be taught to young people without the frou-frou of calling it a School of International Relations.

Read the old books, by the masters-- Thucydides, Machiavelli, Sun-Tzu, Hobbes etc-- and supplement with tons of historical examples studied in great depth using old-fashioned historical analysis of contingency, human error, the complex interplay of human choice and material constraints across time.

The problem is the globalist nonsense that infects the minds of the people who for the past 25 years or so have dominated this profession. There's really nothing related to foreign policy that can't be taught either in a well-constructed, rigorous history program or a traditional law or economics program.

The Koch Brothers of all people--to their credit-- have actually done something good (for once) with their philanthropic dollars, by funding research into a more restrained, realist foreign policy by Barry Posen and his colleagues at MIT, Michael Desch at Notre Dame and several other leading researchers.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-07 15:25|| 2019-11-07 15:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Polybius

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-07 15:32|| 2019-11-07 15:32|| Front Page Top

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