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“On Grand Strategy” by John Lewis Gaddis
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Riddled with thoughtful connections and references, Gaddis (one of our leading Cold War historians), presents a series of dueling comparisons of historical strategists against Archilochus’ poem: “the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog know one big thing”. Here we find Xerxes as a single-minded 🦔 in good company with Philip II. These leaders are juxtaposed against adaptable 🦊 such as Elizabeth I and Pericles. Gaddis shows, however, that successful grand strategy across time, scale, and scope requires the strategist to simultaneously be both a 🦔 and a 🦊. Examples of such unwavering purpose paired with adaptability of means include Octavius, Abraham Lincoln, and FDR. Gaddis’ book references many of the greatest works on strategy across the ages and is thus an excellent primer to anyone hoping to “align their means towards ends”.
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Riddled with thoughtful connections and references, Gaddis (one of our leading Cold War historians), presents a series of dueling comparisons of historical strategists against Archilochus’ poem: “the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog know one big thing”. Here we find Xerxes as a single-minded 🦔 in good company with Philip II. These leaders are juxtaposed against adaptable 🦊 such as Elizabeth I and Pericles. Gaddis shows, however, that successful grand strategy across time, scale, and scope requires the strategist to simultaneously be both a 🦔 and a 🦊. Examples of such unwavering purpose paired with adaptability of means include Octavius, Abraham Lincoln, and FDR. Gaddis’ book references many of the greatest works on strategy across the ages and is thus an excellent primer to anyone hoping to “align their means towards ends”.