Anonymous
6/18/2025, 5:30:44 AM No.63856115
Is grand strategy a serious topic?
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 6:24:17 AM No.63856300
>>63856115 (OP)
As pic rel would say:
>Read a book, you stupid nigger.
Specifically read "The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War". It's an archivist's dive into what was going on in the decision making process (and what wasn't) of the Japanese after they realized they had to modernize or die. If you finish it and come away with the impression that 'grand strategy as a concept' is just some academics spitballing, then that's fine. But it really solidified for me what grand strategy is supposed to mean.
>Consider a typical national government's cabinet positions
>sec of war, sec of treasury, sec of education, sec of scientific innovation, sec of the interior, ect...
>each of these basically represents a tool of power that the government can wield
>Grand strategy is deciding what it is your nation is going to do with all these tools of power and making them act in a concerted way.
As pic rel would say:
>Read a book, you stupid nigger.
Specifically read "The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War". It's an archivist's dive into what was going on in the decision making process (and what wasn't) of the Japanese after they realized they had to modernize or die. If you finish it and come away with the impression that 'grand strategy as a concept' is just some academics spitballing, then that's fine. But it really solidified for me what grand strategy is supposed to mean.
>Consider a typical national government's cabinet positions
>sec of war, sec of treasury, sec of education, sec of scientific innovation, sec of the interior, ect...
>each of these basically represents a tool of power that the government can wield
>Grand strategy is deciding what it is your nation is going to do with all these tools of power and making them act in a concerted way.