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On Strategy: A Primer
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- On Strategy: A Primer All history is strategic history. This is simply a fact that rests on empirical evidence of the most unforgiving kind. I wish I could cite a strategic quality to some societies but not others. However, strategic concerns do not permit neighbors to decline to play. Review of our all-too-human history reveals quite unarguably that a “Game of Thrones” is so eternal and ubiquitous as to merit classification as unavoidable, at least with any hopes for community security, that is! Looking back on my own academic career of more than fifty years, I taught in three very different countries (Britain, Canada, and the United States) but was never invited, let alone expected, to teach anything closely resembling “strategic history.” Too often, the idea of strategic history is simply confused with rather old-fashioned-sounding military history. The critically significant difference between military and strategic history lies in the zone of our experience, where the political and the military realms meet. The focus of attention for a strategic historian has to be the consequences of military threat and action. This certainly is not to say, or mean, that war and its warfare always are, or should be, the principal focus of official attention. However, throughout history there has been a strategic context to the events of particular interest to us. This context will not always be menacing, but usually there has been some close or distant menace to normal life. We should not forget that the contextual quality to our lives is really heir to generations of functionally similar phenomena. Readers may notice that I identify the vital concept of context as being of inestimable significance. Appreciation of our contextuality enables us to understand much of what we do and what we attempt. American soldiers today need contextual self-awareness to survive the circumstances life will likely throw at them. There continues to be some disagreement among scholars regarding historical change. Warfare seems especially prone to ill-tempered argument on the distinctly non-trivial issue of what changed, or at least appears to change, and what does not. Students find themselves assailed by expert commentators who disagree on whether this technology is really much of a change from its predecessor. The entire subject of strategy is liable to political capture by the immediacy of the menace of the month. All weapons have context. They will have some particular political and military purpose. Military technology of unusual competence may be fairly described as possessing strategic quality. While the use of weapons must be in the realm of tactics, their consequences in threat and use may warrant encryption as strategic. It is important to remember that strategy is made only from tactical and operational behavior; it has no other ingredients. It is little short of amazing to realize that relatively few among the host of strategic theorists and other commentators truly grasp the nature, including the limits, of our subject. The adjective strategic should apply, or not, solely to the consequences of action that we understand strictly as the realm of the tactical. Threat and actual behavior can only be judged strategic in the vital sense of its consequential effect. Incorrect use of the noun and adjective, strategy and strategic, unavoidably clouds what ought to be kept clear, at least at the important branch of understanding in principle. We think about relevant theory in an orderly fashion, specifying ascending/descending steps in a clear hierarchy of threat and actual violence. It is commonplace for us to resort to PowerPoint presentations of the character of the escalation.
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