Grand Strategy

FourGW term? Foreign Policy? wider? or is it really a generic phrase?

A Meta Level above "strategy"? Shared Vision? The Infinite Game?

the Moral basis for your strategy? Needed for

• internal Culture Congruence
• to win the Hearts And Minds of the other side

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_strategy

Edward Luttwak: the dimension of inter-state conflict where all that is military happens within the much broader context of domestic politics, international diplomacy, economic activity, and all else that strengthens and weakens

Chuck Spinney: John Boyd evolved five criteria for synthesizing and evaluating a nation's grand strategy. Boyd's brilliant theories of conflict are contained in his collections of briefings entitled a Discourse On Winning And Losing.

• Chet Richards on Boyd's thinking: to produce positive benefits on morale and public/world opinion. Such a grand strategy would also shape our alliance structure and form a key element in isolating adversaries from physical, mental, and moral support.

http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj97/callinicos.htm

Bucky Fuller's: http://www.buckminster.info/Strategy/GrandStrategy.htm

Fabius Maximus on what the USA should learn:

• 2006-01-31-FabiusMythGrand Strategy
• 2006-09-08-FabiusFateIsrael
• ??
• 2007-03-20-MaximusAmericaProsper