The video below is from 13 years ago. It features two US O6s who did strategic thinking right at Five Sides. Of course, their work was ignored and rejected, but it was done. It can be done. This tells me, among other things, why I always felt well-disposed towards ADM and CNO/CJCS Mullen.
USG and D-R UniParty are loathe to relinquish the notion that if they but attack harder, bully more, shout louder, be meaner, nervy nations will fall in line to dance as directed by USG and D-R UniParty.
After all, they argue, offense is the best defense.
But it’s not. The best defense, personal and national, is humility in a spirit of cooperation backed by high competence in strategic, operational, and tactical arts applied to the fields of diplomacy, finance, and war-fighting. USG and D-R UniParty today lack competence in the arts of each of these fields.
To renounce and abandon the chimera of being the international capo di tutti i capi and pursue instead sovereign welfare for US Americans as a whole is the duty of USG and D-R UniParty. More specifically, it is the duty of all US Americans, all as one nation, to foster self-confidence in one another and to provide protection for our Motherland.
Wikipedia entry regarding A National Strategic Narrative
In Search of a New Security Narrative:
National Conversation Series Launches at the Wilson Center
Some Follow-ons:
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Instead of Iran, there should have been Russia: a vile blow to Kaliningrad failed
“We don’t need Putin”: Maidan arose where they did not expect
Deterrence or death: Israel is making the case for a nuclear-armed Iran
Russia Is Not Going to Attack NATO
America threatens the world with the most terrible
In the United States, the struggle for the main source of wealth of the XXI century has begun
Hey Ivan! I caught the bear!
Good Sergei! Bring him here!
I can’t! He won’t let me!