Strategic pioneers

"Strategic pioneers who create theories, concepts, and other intellectual tools for use by doers have been scarcer than hen's teeth throughout human history. Sun Tzu, Mahan, Liddell Hart, Herman Kahn, and Bernard Brodie, the world's first nuclear strategist, are prominent exceptions. Lenin, Mao, Giap, Billy Mitchell, and a handful of others who practiced what they preach, remain even rarer."

-- Colonel (Ret.) John Collins, The Warlord Emeritus

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