What is Strategy & History?

The great thing about policy is that it leaves tracks. We can go back and assess if a specific policy achieved its intended objectives. What did its proponents claim? What did its opponents fear? What actually happened?

This is a publication for the polycrisis era. For a time when there is so much happening, so quickly. It is for those who care more about analysis than argument. With over 40 years of experience in making, shaping and debating national security strategy in Washington, D.C., I hope to bring to bear the lessons of the past to inform the strategies of the future.

We all know what happens to those who forget history.

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