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In reply to Roderick T. Long. Aristotle also says that the specific goal of the strategos is VICTORY. That seems to support the non-moralised understanding of strategy. LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. “Classically understood, strategic knowledge is tactical knowledge integrated with the proper ends of politics, including justice.” What Aristotle says about the strategos could potentially be understood either wa…

In reply to boydstun. “I personally dislike stories (again, again, . . .) that utilize extraterrestrial life, intelligent or not, engaging with this planet and its life.” Wow, that’s a dismissal of a pretty vast and diverse genre. &#8…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. The three-movie review that included 2001: A Space Odyssey was in the June 1969 issue of The Objectivist under the title “The War of Liberation in Hollywood.” The paragraph asserting the unintelligibility of th…

Regardless of what the science was before and what it is now, the admonition against launching a robust booster plan in the US when it first was proposed never made any logical sense. We were between waves of a highly contagious disease which at that t…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I don’t at the moment have the time to give Liddell Hart’s Strategy the close reading it deserves, but – based on a mere quick reading of obviously relevant passages – I think what you call “stra…

In reply to Suleman Khawaja. That’s about as obvious a vindication of your blog post here as can be imagined. I find it incredible that three months ago, “the experts” were so confident about telling us not to get boosters; now, we&#8…

In reply to Michael Brazier. The idea behind my conception of strategy is a commonplace of political science: war is instrumental means to aims beyond it. War aims at a peace better than what would have obtained by the refusal to fight. In other words, to be rational, war has to have some real chance…