Chapter 19: The Theory of Strategy Summary and Analysis

This chapter brings together what has been previously introduced into a new whole. This time, the author educates the reader for the first time in the theory of strategy per se. The first step applied is to provide definitions of strategy and policy and to describe the basics of how and why the present world and democracy especially is not designed to cultivate the superior military political leader. In democratic and other free nations, the military is always subservient to the civilian "body politic", which separates policy from strategy as least as much as Americans have sought some kind of separation of Church and state even when religion figures heavily in the politics of the people and the government.

Next, the writer explains "limited aim", or the strategic goals most often used by...