Mainstream intellectuals, therefore, like to work on a grand strategy to deal with anything because that gives them a sense of purpose and importance. The historian John Lewis Gaddis, who teaches a course on grand strategy, formerly at the US Naval War Academy and now at Yale University, has just written a book entitled On Grand Strategy (Penguin, 2018). Napoleon, who was the master of grand strategy, made the fatal mistake of marching into Russia and was defeated more by winter than by Russian armed forces. Grand visions may not, therefore, work well but good narratives that the public can understand will. It is, therefore, very likely that no grand strategy will work for climate change.

Source: The Edge Markets May 18, 2019 03:33 UTC