![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For people ‘at the sharp end of war’, there is ‘only one level of intensity, the one that threatens life and limb’. Professor Gray observes that there is ‘no little irony in the fact that military pedagogy in the West often draws absurd distinctions among so-called high-, medium-, and low-intensity conflicts’. complexity in the trade of war and in the subjects requiring mastery for exploitation by the art of strategy…so warfare is recognised as requiring an approach that is more coherent than mere coordination or synchronisation, and that instead proceeds beyond even the ‘joint’ into the military-cultural realm of true functional interdependence. The most compelling pattern visible in modern strategic experience is the widening gyre, the expanding vortex, of war and all its works. Strategic history can be told as a tale of pathologies of separate efforts by elements that should operate as one in pursuit of common military objectives. Poor strategy is expensive, bad strategy can be lethal, while when the stakes include survival, very bad strategy is almost always fatal. ![]()
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