About grand strategy:  What it is, why we need it, why we don’t, and how to tell if we have a good one.

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Be sure to read his latest installment, on peak oil.  You may wonder how this plays into grand strategy, but how we deal with the unprecedented ramp up in the cost of this most basic of commodities (as close to a tax on breathing as is humanly possible) will affect Boyd’s four elements of grand strategy:

• Improve our morale and that of our allies
• Degrade that of our opponents
• Attract the uncommitted
• Without setting the stage for future (unfavorable) conflict.

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