On Grand Strategy | 
If you haven‘t read War and Peace but intend to one day, don‘t read this book. It just spoiled the ending of W&P for me. So, thanks for that, Gaddis.
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If you haven‘t read War and Peace but intend to one day, don‘t read this book. It just spoiled the ending of W&P for me. So, thanks for that, Gaddis.
I go for daily walks, around 3.5 miles long. I listen to podcasts & audiobooks. ☝🏻 My current read! I know, what nerd says hi to neighbors while listening to theories on leadership culled from International Relations, Philosophy, & Military History 🤓. This guy. That‘s who. Probably an indicator as to why I‘m still single 🙈.
Her: So, what‘s on your mind lately?
Me: Well...at the moment, a fox & a hedgehog, Xerxes, and “War & Peace”.
Her: 😳🤨
so-soWhat‘s cool is all the historical analysis from Ancient Greece to Rome to St. Augustine and Machiavelli as applied by Queen Elizabeth vs Philip II of Spain, to Lincoln vs Napoleon (with Tolstoy‘s War and Peace), to Woodrow Wilson vs FDR. But his points are troublesome in that they amount to: everyone who was successful managed to balanced strategy with reality and uncertainty and everyone who wasn‘t successful didn‘t. Is that really insightful?
