we few, we happy few, we band of brothers…such is Shakespeare’s contribution to “strategy.” West Pointers and Brits love their pithy quotes. Plato has one, “only the dead have seen the end of war.” Strategy for George R.R. Martin is to marry another Lord’s ugly son or daughter so you can combine forces in an attack, or, even better,get you a really big dragon. Which is more strategy than George W.W. Bush ever dreamed of. All we get from our political/military leadership anymore is tactics. Obama’s tactic is to sneak more and more troops into Iraq until we have so many behind the Iraqi ‘Army’ they can no longer retreat. But to what end? Making us safe from ISIS is not strategy. Mercy, I got my B.A. in Lit 40 years ago and a great source of happiness ever since has been never having to open another damn Shakespeare play…