Sublime

The picture of strategy that should emerge from this book is one that is fluid and flexible, governed by the starting point and not the end point.

As the example of the late Soviet Union illustrated so well, until a few years ago it was possible for states to exercise great power in the world even while wasting resources on a massive scale. When returns to violence are high and rising, magnitude means more than efficiency. Larger entities tend to prevail over smaller ones. Those governments t

As a theme of this book is the growing importance of stories as a means of thinking about and communicating strategies,