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From the particular characteristics of war, there arise a particular set of organizations, a particular series of methods and a process of a particular kind. The organizations are the armed forces and everything that goes with them. The methods are the strategy and tactics for directing the war. The process is the particular form of social activity in which the opposing armed forces attack each other or defend themselves against one another, employing strategy and tactics favorable to themselves and unfavorable to the enemy.
The serious trouble begins when Americans have to interact with alien societies in unfamiliar terrain...
A certainty of material superiority can breed overconfidence and minimize incentives to outthink the enemy...
A practical consequence of the messianic, crusading dimension to American strategic behavior, is a self-righteousness that is not friendly, or even receptive, to unwelcome cultural and political facts...
The country’s culture simply did not register the unwanted Vietnam experience. Cultures, including strategic cultures, are capable of ignoring what they wish to ignore.
—C.S. Gray
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Wallace, R. (2020). Can There Be “Third Stream” Doctrines?. In: Cognitive Dynamics on Clausewitz Landscapes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26424-6_5
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