Patterns of Conflict Slide 141

Patterns of Conflict

Patterns of Conflict Slide 141

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So we paste all that together, now we invert again. Remember, I went from bottom up. Tactics, grand tactics. So now we’re going top down. Your national goal. Of course, you already know what I’m going to say: we got national goal, grand strategy, strategic aim, strategy, grand tactics, and all these groups. So you don’t have to read them all.

The point I’m trying to bring out here, if you look at these, the upper two tend to be constructive in nature, yet they operate over a longer timeframe. Whereas, the bottom four, which is—he was sort of alluding to—tend to be destructive in nature, but they operate over a shorter timeframe.

So the question is, how do you harmonize these two things that sort of have opposing tendencies? Short-term versus long-term and constructive versus destructive? You sort of have to—you know, that’s the way the world is. You’re going to have to face up. How do you deal with that kind of stuff?