victory disease

America has the victory disease. It won’t end well for us.

Summary: Presidential administrations change, but America’s grand strategy remains the same. Bush, Obama, Trump all employ the same failed tactics, boldly and confidently, blindly and arrogantly. We have a severe case of the victory disease. This won’t work well for us. “Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.” — Paraphrase of …

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Sinking of the USS Oriskany

War games, the antidote to “Victory disease”

This post about the 2002 Millennium Challenge war games has sparked such a valuable discussion that it is being moved to the DNI blog (update:  it is here).  Stay tuned, as this will be worthwhile reading. For a good introduction to the subject of war games — more formally, “military simulations” — see the Wikipedia …

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