Two Sentences Regarding the Effect of Experience on the Intellectual Underpinnings of Strategy

“Now you boys listen to me and let that burn in real good.” -Mr. Mason in “Red Dawn”

The intellectual underpinnings for the U.S. strategy that won the Cold War came from a generation that won a war.

The intellectual underpinnings for today’s strategies for the U.S. to compete with China and Russia come from a generation that lost two AUMFs.