Following the overwhelming response to our 1st quarterly series for 2021 on the next National Security Strategy, The Strategy Bridge is shifted gears. Our 2nd quarter series for 2021 was all about assumptions in policy, strategy, and military strategy. What problematic or powerful assumption(s) should The Strategy Bridge readers contemplate and why?
The submissions were plentiful—many of you had thoughts on this question and the selection was not easy. A hearty thanks to all who submitted for this quarter, and congratulations to those of you whose articles were accepted for publication.
Thanks, as always, for being part of The Strategy Bridge community!
Assumptionitis in Strategy, by Mie Augier, Sean F.X. Barrett, and William Mullen
The WEIRD World Wars & Why They May Create Blind Spots for Strategy, by Amanda Cronkhite
Lessons from Bismarck for Twenty-First Century Competition: Challenging the Historical Analogies that Shape Strategic Assumptions, by Nicholas Wainwright
Validating America’s Core Values and Vital Interests to Recraft its Grand Strategy and Grand Strategic Assumptions, by Chad Buckel
Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Applying an Overlooked Analogy to U.S.-China Competition, by Joel Benedetti
Winning Without War: Chinese Supremacy in Global Supply Chains, by Evan Hanson
The Case Against the Concept of Great Power Competition, by Matej Kandrik
Hugging the Old Bear: Updating The American Playbook for the Long Game, by Alexander Grinberg
Offshore Balancing with Chinese Characteristics, by Andrew Latham
The White Elephant in the Room: Antarctica in Modern Geopolitics, by Michael Gardiner, Ryan Morrissey and James Hurley
How the U.S. Can Recapture Escalation Control, by Matthew Sussex and Cathy Moloney
Remembering the Geography in Geopolitics and Indo-Pacific Discourse, by Benjamin Mainardi
Cyberspace is an Analogy, Not a Domain: Rethinking Domains and Layers of Warfare for the Information Age, by Michael P. Kreuzer
The 1999 Kosovo War: Reassessing the Possibilities of Intervention, by Elizabeth Walters
Interpreting Sun Tzu: The Art of Failure, by John Sullivan
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Header Image: Joint Enabling Capabilities Command, Norfolk Virginia, 2012 (Susan Van Sloten)