Can Lesser Statesmen Succeed By Imitating Great Statesmen?
Supreme Command shows how the traditional orthodoxy of turning a war over to the generals, with the civilian leader merely setting the goals and defining the general nature of the encounter, only invites failure. But I am not sure every wartime president will be able to follow the command styles that Supreme Command relies upon when it endeavors to show there is a better way. To make the point, I have drastically compressed many of the techniques of the great wartime statesmen that Supreme Command spells out in detail. For the sake of brevity, I’ve labeled and highlighted only a few. To be blunt about my point, I have serious doubts that Bush Junior either possesses, or can quickly acquire, any of these skills. The first skill of supreme command is self-confident intuition. With Henry Adams’ acerbic observation in mind – that “in all great emergencies … everyone is more or less wrong” – Cohen found that his successful civilian supreme commanders had an intuitive sense that others wer
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