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Originally Posted by Jack S.
My military history professor had a saying: 'managers of violence.' He used to say that so long as a military plan does not have a goal which is a certain political endgame that all that plan would be doing is 'managing violence.' He defined any military plan that did have a political endgame as strategy.
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Jack--
Out of intellectual curiosity, I have three questions.
First, if you feel comfortable doing so, could you provide the professor's name and the title of the class he taught? (Was the course offered by your school's history department or another department?)
Second, when he offered his definition of strategy, did he ever discuss the relationships among strategy, operations, and tactics?
Third, did he differentiate among different types of wars?
To be clear--these questions are offered out of curiosity, not criticism of your professor nor your POV. I simply have a long standing interest in how "strategy" gets discussed in contemporary America.
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