If you are of a certain age and spent any amount of time playing StarCraft, you know that if you:
- find an enemy base early on
- grab whatever units you have on the map and send them straight at it
- just keep making more units instead of building your base and send them over as soon as they’re done
You are gonna get your ass handed to you
[puffs cigar]
Congratulations, you know more about strategy than the US Secretary of Defense
When I played the Civilization games and wanted to take a country, I was sure to beforehand get as many military assets in place as possible and try to make alliances with as many of their neighbors as possible.
I mean, I read Norman Schwarzkopf's memoirs, but you don't have to do that to figure this out. I did before I read them!
I figured this stuff out in my teens, no excuse for SecDef. But he's a drunk, his brain's probably fried from booze.
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