On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis Summary
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Gaddis distills millennia of strategic wisdom into one masterful volume. Praised by the Wall Street Journal as "the best education in grand strategy available," this Yale professor's insights have shaped military leaders and business titans alike. Where theory meets reality, greatness emerges.
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When Leaders Weep Before Victory
Picture Winston Churchill in the winter of 1940, Britain standing alone against Hitler's war machine, reading handwritten lines from Longfellow sent by Franklin Roosevelt: "Sail on, O Ship of State!... Humanity with all its fears, With all the hope of future years Is hanging breathless on thy fate!" These same words had once comforted Abraham Lincoln during America's Civil War. Now they crossed the Atlantic as a lifeline between two democracies-one fighting for survival, the other preparing for inevitable war. Churchill's response crackled over shortwave radio: "Give us the tools and we will finish the job!" This exchange captures something profound about strategy: it's the art of matching grand dreams with stubborn realities, of knowing when to sail forward and when to wait for the wind. Think back to 480 BCE. Persian King Xerxes stood overlooking the Hellespont, surveying history's largest invasion force. After a storm destroyed his first bridge, he'd ordered the waters whipped and branded with hot irons-as if nature itself could be disciplined like a soldier. Yet suddenly, surrounded by his massive army, Xerxes wept. When his uncle asked why, the king replied: "Here are all these thousands, and not one of them will be alive a hundred years from now." His uncle Artabanus, pressed for honest counsel, confessed his fears: Greece's warriors weren't the only threat-the land and sea themselves would challenge an army too large to feed. Xerxes dismissed these concerns with a line that echoes through history: "Big things are won by big dangers." He crossed into Europe and marched toward disaster.
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The Ancient Manual for Modern Strategy
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