The man who steered America’s military strategy for more than four decades was 97
of many a large and ambitious empire sits one man who is not the ruler, though the ruler often listens to him; and who runs no department, though his faithful followers are found all through government. He is rarely seen in public, publishes very little, avoids journalists, sits silently through meetings, and yet steers the country. For more than four decades, America’s version of this inscrutable figure was Andrew Marshall.
For years all defence strategy centred on the Soviet Union, and there his chief questions were: could it afford its military machine? And was the government as ruthlessly monolithic as American officials supposed? His assessments, contrary to the’s, answered no to both. Once these facts were known, it made sense to deploy “competitive strategies”, borrowed from the business strategy he had studied atin the mid-1960s, and make the weaker competitor overspend until it was driven out of the market.
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