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Grand Strategy

FourGW term? Foreign Policy? wider? or is it really a generic phrase?

A Meta Level above "strategy"? Shared Vision? The Infinite Game?

the Moral basis for your strategy? Needed for

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_strategy

Edward Luttwak: the dimension of inter-state conflict where all that is military happens within the much broader context of domestic politics, international diplomacy, economic activity, and all else that strengthens and weakens

Chuck Spinney: John Boyd evolved five criteria for synthesizing and evaluating a nation's grand strategy. Boyd's brilliant theories of conflict are contained in his collections of briefings entitled a Discourse On Winning And Losing.

  • Chet Richards on Boyd's thinking: to produce positive benefits on morale and public/world opinion. Such a grand strategy would also shape our alliance structure and form a key element in isolating adversaries from physical, mental, and moral support.

http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj97/callinicos.htm

Bucky Fuller's (not really the same frame): Luckily, it just so happens that as industrialization increases, the global birth rate decreases. As the amount of energy per person increases, the birth rate decreases, so that if the world is completely industrialized by about the year 2010, the total population should peak at about 6 billion & then start declining. Therefore, if we only double the average efficiency we could easily take care of the world's present one billion poor (the other four billion are already "making it" now). And if we triple the efficiency we could not only take care of any future population growth, but dramatically raise everyone's standard of living.
How, specifically, can we raise the efficiency? How can we get more energy, use less materials, & use less time to provide for our basic needs? What do we need? Lots of renewable energy, plenty of food, decent inexpensive housing, medical care, education, transportation, and communication, to name the basics.
Energy first: We need to develop about a dozen types of renewable sources of energy and we need to develop ways of distributing that energy.
Now, what is the story for food? Much the same. We produce more than enough food for everyone, but much of it rots or is eaten by rodents because we don't have the means of storing, preserving, and transporting it. But, with adequate energy we could grow, preserve, and distribute plenty of food for everyone. In fact, if needed, we could probably grow two or three times as much as we do now.
And so, if we solve the energy & food problems, how do we provide good, inexpensive housing for everyone? Simple. Shelter people in mass-produced, self-contained, surplus-energy-producing, geodesic dome homes which would be helicopter-delivered to anywhere for a tenth the cost of conventional houses. A geodesic sphere is the lightest, strongest, and cheapest way of enclosing space ever invented.

Fabius Maximus on what the USA should learn:

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