Jumat, 14 April 2017

Letter from the Editor: On Strategy- Armchair General January 2014

Strategy – deciding how to accomplish a goal—is important in all endeavors, from making financial investments to winning sports games. Yet it is absolutely vital in warfare, as several articles in this issue demonstrate.   Despite the fact that General Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower led history’s most successful allied coalition to victory during World War …

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