![]() ![]() Victory in battle does not ensure strategic or political success but defeat all but guarantees failure. Military excellence cannot guarantee strategic success. Military excellence can only be verified by performance in war. ![]() The impossible is impossible it is a condition not a problem for which a solution has yet to be found. All strategy is geostrategy geography is fundamental. Friction is unavoidable but need not be fatal. Time is the least forgiving dimension of strategy. The strategic Concept du Jour will be Tomorrow's stale left over until it is rediscovered recycled and revealed as a new truth. If thucydides sun tzu and Clausewitz did not say it it probably is not worth saying. Bad strategy kills but so also do bad policy and tactics. Strategy is more difficult than policy or tactics. Knowledge of strategy is vital the flame of strategic understanding has to be kept lit. Policy is king but often is ignorant of the nature and character of war. Reason reigns over war but passion and chance threaten to rule. Not only polities but societies and their cultures make war and peace. Peace and order are not self enforcing they have to be organized ad kept by somebody. War works but always has unintended and unanticipated consequences. It is more difficult to make peace than it is to make war. ![]() War is about peace and peace can be about war. Introduction getting the big things right enough. ![]()
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