p.82 We need strategists... When he was Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Bill Crowe said that what we need are people who can deal with "thorny problems
- people in uniform who are expert in their warfighting specialties and also able to assist the National Command Authorities
in matters of strategy, policy, resource allocation, and operations."
p.83 After a while he [a military strategist] knows what things are possible, what units can and cannot
do, and what happens to them under various conditions of battle.
p.84 Strategic thinkers do not owe their success to the ability to master certain principles or maxims.
p.85 Our approach [to developing strategists] should employ three elements: formal schooling, in-unit
education and experience, and self-development.
First, schools. Perhaps it is too obvious, but at each level, the schools should seek to
broaden the officer's horizon.
p.86 The object is to get students to think strategically, not to parrot the "correct strategy."
p.87 An in-depth understanding of armed forces is a prerequisite for the military strategist.
He should be fully cognizant of the capabilities and limitations of military force in general and various types of military
units in particular... the military strategist must be competent in joint and combined operations... "Gaining a joint perspective"
is just a way-station on the road to becoming a strategist... the development of capabilities as a strategist is a
matter of continuing personal application more than anything else. Alexander the Great learned about war
at the side of his father, Philip of Macedon. He received no formal military education, yet few have matched his insight into
combining effective military power with statecraft.
p.88 A look at history will show that highly motivated self-development is the key to producing
the best strategists... the strategist in uniform must go beyond history and the purely military
sphere; he requires a much broader base from which to operate.
p.89 much of their [certain WWII leaders] education came through unit programs and, even more,
via self-development - through reading and study on their own, and through discussions with fellow officers.
