Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace, Revised and Enlarged Edition

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If you want peace, prepare for war. A buildup of offensive weapons can be purely defensive. The worst road may be the best route to battle.

Strategy is made of such seemingly self-contradictory propositions, Edward Luttwak shows--they exemplify the paradoxical logic that pervades the entire realm of conflict.

In this widely acclaimed work, now revised and expanded, Luttwak unveils the peculiar logic of strategy level by level, from grand strategy down to combat tactics. Having participated in its planning, Luttwak examines the role of air power in the 1991 Gulf War, then detects the emergence of "post-heroic" war in Kosovo in 1999--an American war in which not a single American soldier was killed.

In the tradition of Carl von Clausewitz, Strategy goes beyond paradox to expose the dynamics of reversal at work in the crucible of conflict. As victory is turned into defeat by over-extension, as war brings peace by exhaustion, ordinary linear logic is overthrown. Citing examples from ancient Rome to our own days, from Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor down to minor combat affrays, from the strategy of peace to the latest operational methods of war, this book by one of the world's foremost authorities reveals the ultimate logic of military failure and success, of war and peace.

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Good for the younger reader, but not especially insightful.......2006-09-14

Although interesting and in some points insightful, the author of the book principally seems to miss the point of multidimensional strategy. Rather than thinking of strategy as an equation on a multidimensional graph, with defense and offense combining with strengths and weaknesses of opposing forced to produce the best operation, Luttwak seems to view modern strategy and tactics more in linear Napoleonic terms, calling this a paradox. Of course, there is no paradox in this logical endeavor, as the 'social' forces in strategy cannot be said to ever create a true paradox.

His understanding of why nations go to war is not particularly insightful (Machiavelli said the same thing five centuries ago) but is well written and intelligent to be an enjoyable read. It would prove very useful for the young reader attempting to discover what strategy is.

Luttwak's choice of military events to prove his theory is, of course, circumspect. But whose is not? Hart cherry-picked, as did Clauswitz and every other military strategist. He should not be faulted on this point, as it in no way detracts from the main issue of paradox.

The seeming lack of morality on conflict resolution demonstrates a lack of understanding of the necessities of fourth generational war, but does not demonstrate a lack of understanding of basic strategy or a lack of ethics. The subject of abstract strategy deserves ethics no more than the study of abstract math. Nevertheless, since the creation of the near real time war correspondent, it is impossible to consider war without considering public morality. The concentration camps of the British in the Boer War were effective. The complete and utter annihilation of Carthage also was effective. But both would now be untenable positions. Luttwik does not offer an answer for the European power at war about what to do to win a war. His lack of an answer for the paradox would by necessity eliminate the answer.

The book raises insightful questions and forces the reader the question his own assumptions about strategy, never a bad thing. Although ultimately a failure on the overriding theme, everything else to do with this book makes it enjoyable, and worth reading.

Ignore the Detractors, This Book is Brilliant.......2003-11-15

My own discovery of how the threat changes depending on the levels of analysis would not have occurred without this brilliant book by Edward Luttwak. It was his careful and reasoned discussion of how specific capabilities and policies might not make sense at one level of analysis, but do when combined with others, that helped me understand why US (and other) intelligence communities continue to get so much wrong.

First to credit Luttwak: anti-tank weapons make no sense in isolation (tactical level), but if they slow the tank down enough to allow artillery and close air support to have an impact (operational level), they might close gaps and win victories (strategic level). Bottom line: nothing in war can be considered in isolation (including, one might add, the post-war needs that enable an exit strategy).

It was from Luttwak's work that the Marine Corps Intelligence Center (today the Marine Corps Intelligence Command) developed the new model for analysis that distinguished between the four levels of analysis (strategic, operational, tactical, and technical), combined that with the three major domains (military, geographic, and civil), and then cross-walked that against every single mission area (infantry, artillery, tanks, aviation, etcetera).

One simple example of the importance of Luttwak's work to intelligence: at the time (1990) the Libyan T-72 tank was considered by the US Intelligence Community to be a very high threat because it was the best tank that money could then buy--but on reflection, we found this was true only at the technical level of optimal lethality. At the tactical level the tank was being stored in the open, poorly maintained by poorly trained crews, parts cannibalization occurring regularly, this dropped the threat to low. At the operational level there were a significant number of the tanks scattered around and available, this raised it to a medium threat at that level. At the strategic level, the tanks could not be sustained in battle for more than two weeks, and dropped again to low.

Edward Luttwak, in company with Colin Gray, Martin van Creveld, Ralph Peters, and Steve Metz, is one of the most brilliant and clear-spoken of the strategists writing in English, and this book will remain--for years to come--a fundamental building block in the learning and maturation of national security strategy.

What on Earth is he thinking?!?.......2003-07-09

Utter hogwash.

War is violence with a purpose not a physical phenomenon that burns itself out like a forest fire. The function of every war is not to bring peace but to acheive specific political objectives (cf. Clausewitz). If you intervene in a war, you are not interrupting some chemical reaction. You are acting politically to alter the course of the conflict: perhaps saving lives, perhaps not; perhaps helping to bring about a peaceful solution to the conflict, perhaps not.

I'd like to see how "logical" Luttwak would be if it was his family and town that was being subjected to sustained genocidal attack. The clue to all this is his view that "other peoples' wars" should be allowed to run their course. You cannot but conclude that "other people" are not quite like him...

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.......2003-05-29

This is a sprawling, but very important and perceptive analysis. Luttwak's often revised book has several messages. The most topically interesting one was apparently missed by the reviewers, who concentrated on the paradoxical nature of strategic relations.
Luttwak notes that modern industrial societies will not tolerate casualties in war, and that therefore battlefield strategies must focus on winning wars without direct contact with the enemy and without risk of lives. He claims that while the strategic bombing of WW II was a failure, strategic bombing as practised in Iraq in 1991 and in Kossovo was a success. According to Luttwak, the difference is more accurate intelligence and more accurate bombing - not necessarily cruise-missiles.

He points out that with a smaller expenditure of bombs in 1 month in 1991 than the allies had expended in Germany in 1945, the coalition succeeding in totally disrupting Iraq communications and industry.

The outlines of how the next war ought to be fought, and in fact was fought, were clear from Luttwak's presentation. One almost gets the feeling that the war was fought to prove his theory, and it is very likely that changes in US defense policy are being based on lessons drawn from the success of the war, in the light of Luttwak's recommendations.

Luttwak does not take into account that not all enemies are equal. The strategy that worked so well for Iraq might not work for a more organized and determined foe such as North Korea.

Paradox is only part of the story........2002-09-19

Historians and political scientists have coined many theories to contain and explain warfare. Systems theorists like Robert Jervis attempt to study conflict from the point of view of complex hierarchies and nonlinear feedbacks: a nation cannot always attain its goals because of how its neighbors and opponents will react. At the opposite end of the spectrum is the linear logic of cognitive approaches to war: individuals have certain intentions and we can explain their actions according to their understanding of the world.

Luttwak's book is between these two: according to the paradoxical approach, individuals may seek certain objectives, but the consequences of their actions don't always follow as expected. This approach finds its expression more recently in Zeev Moaz's Paradoxes of War.

The strength of the paradoxical approach is that it deals with units that strategists can understand and manipulate: individuals and nations. Systems approaches are valuable for their historical perspective, but one cannot easily understand or manipulate the international power structure on a daily basis. Paradoxical approaches also help in isolating the perversity of strategy: every action implies some equal but unknowable reaction. Radar invites chaff. Maneuver warfare invites a defense in depth, or counterattacks. Overall superiority invites assymetrical counterstrategies.

The major weakness of the paradoxical approach is that intentions and consequences conflict only some of the time. We might explain the failure of the Maginot Line by paradoxical theories, but how do we explain an attack or a defense that was successful?

That said, Luttwak's work is important for two reasons: first, it highlights the necessity of trying to anticipate how your neighbors and opponents will react to new techniques, tactics, operations, etc. Second, it is overall one of the best general introductions to the different levels of warfare: technical, tactical, operational, strategic, and diplomatic. Other texts, such as Leonhard's Art of Maneuver deal with particular levels, without any attempt at synthesis.

Students of warfare will find the paradoxical approach helpful at times, and useless at others. If we accept that sometimes intentions don't match consequences, we can dramatically improve the prospects for success. Unfortunately, this approach is not the panacea that Luttwak hopes it can be.

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Brzezinski provides a stark and realistic look at the world's economy and moral crisis in a brilliant analysis of today's geopolitical order.

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On "Out of Control".......2003-10-03

What will our world be like in the twenty-first century? What are the factors that will determine the shape of the global politics in the new century? Is global change evolving out of control? These and many other related issues are rigorously covered by Zbigniew Brzezinski in his masterpiece monograph "Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century" (1993). Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor to the President of the United States, clearly describes the purpose of the book in the introduction stating that it is "partially diagnosis, partially prognosis, and partially advocacy" (Brzezinski 1993, ix). The book is mainly focused on the historical consequences of the "grand failure of totalitarianism" in the twentieth century, and on the role of America in a new geopolitical order.

When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991 the United States had to think about how it was going to adjust to a new world. Brzezinski was among the few scholars who initially addressed this multifaceted problem by drawing some perspectives on the future of world affaires. "Out of Control" is a superior example of such analysis. However, the book seeks to follow "the justification of America's preponderance" line and casts a light on world politics exclusively from the American perspective.

"The Politics of Organized Insanity" is the author's point of departure. This chapter discusses the failure of ideological utopianism during the twentieth century, and the overall price that mankind has had to pay for it. Here Brzezinski presents a very detailed record of all politically motivated deaths of the century. Comparing the twentieth century with other periods in human history the author concludes that the twentieth century became "mankind's most bloody and hateful century, a century of hallucinatory politics and of monstrous killings...never before did it [killing] consume so many lives..." (Brzezinski 1993, 4-5). The century of "megadeath", a century of politically motivated bloodshed, also featured by the political awakening and mass belief in ideological utopias - "metamyths". The author further discusses the reasons of the communist utopia's failure, and explains that the defeat of communism was only partially due to the victory of western democratic ideals. "Rather its defeat was largely derived from its own fundamental misconceptions" (Brzezinski 1993, 57). Then Brzezinski, the world's leading expert in communist affaires, gives a brilliant analysis of totalitarianism and, particularly, communism. Moreover, he warns that the collapse of the communist ideology can bring the prospects of democracy and the free market in the former Communist states into peril.

Totalitarianism (Communism and Nazism) collapsed as it was morally discredited. However, the Western democratic societies are also witnessing the degradation of values. Consumerism in the wealthy advanced countries poses no moral restraint on a human being who becomes guided by a sense of greed for material goods. Hence, ethical and moral standards have been replaced by individual instinctive desires. This social condition, introduced by the author and called "permissive cornucopia" as opposed to "coercive utopia" of totalitarian systems, emphasizes the erosion of moral and religious values in the West. The process of moral degradation and social hedonism are considered by the political scientist as threatening to the global stability because this could deepen North-South cleavage and strengthen the frustrations of the socially excluded and unemployed groups in the West itself. After the breakdown of communism, the world has entered the new phase - post-utopian phase. Justifying the cornucopian values Western civilization puts under threat self long-term viability and "capacity to provide a meaningful message to the politically awakened world in the post-utopian phase" (Brzezinski 1993, 66).

In "The Peerless Global Power" the author finally points to the central idea of the book: the United States is "the lonely superpower" which has no rivals even approaching its might in any dimensions of power. Nevertheless, the point is that "the value content of the American message to the world threaten to undermine America's special role as the global leader" (Brzezinski 1993, 87). What should be done to ensure America's historically unique and unprecedented position in world politics? The author gives a concise answer which is a warning at the same time: "Unless there is some deliberate effort to reestablish the centrality of some moral criteria for the exercise of self-control over gratification, the phase of American preponderance may not last long" (Brzezinski 1993, xiii). In other words, what is indispensable to America now in order to sustain its global leadership is a moral legitimacy.

"Faceless Rivals", another comprehensive chapter of the book, is devoted to the assessment of Europe and Japan as these two are quite often regarded as America's possible rivals or even successors to its dominant status. Despite the fact that both Europe and Japan have economic power matching America's, however, Brzezinski does not accept these two's ability to lead the world because "it is not clear that either one of them could soon translate economic into political-military power (Brzezinski 1993, 87). Still, according to the author, this does not consequently guarantee that world leadership will be automatically executed by the United States, rather this means, "the only alternative to American leadership is global anarchy" (Brzezinski 1993, 146). Thus, the political analyst justifies America's global predominance and the need of its prolongation. Without America there will be chaos - is rather simplistic logic construction. However, the author does not provide any solid evidence in support of his apocalyptic assumption.

"Out of Control" is an impressive effort to explain the state of modern world politics. However, as has been said, "Out of Control" is over-accentuated on the significance of America staying "on top of the world". Nevertheless, Bzezinski is beyond question a distinguished intellectual and academic. Undoubtedly his "Out of Control" is one of the best books on international relations ever written.

Prescient and provocative: Dr. Z's AETIOLOGY OF HYSTERIA.......2003-04-17

"The danger is not that conservative policies will succeed....The danger is that when the inevitable failure of conservative governance occurs, an angry populace will conclude that mainstream conservatism as well as liberalism has been discredited--and that the extremists of the populist and fundamentalist right will be well placed to take advantage of popular alienation and wrath.... Make no mistake, the present Republican spree on behalf of the corporate elite will sooner or later provoke a backlash...

...Indeed, it seems increasingly likely that the now moribund mainstream conservative movement of 1955-1992 will be viewed by historians as nothing more than the icebreaker for a resurgent radical right. Historians of the next century may well record that the conservatism of [William F.]Buckley, Kristol and Podheretz was an ephemeral offshoot from the main line of descent on the American right, a line that leads from [the anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist and radio priest of the 1930's] Father Coughlin through [1950's communist hunter] Joe McCarthy and [1960's racial segregationist] George Wallace to Pat Robertson and Patrick Buchanan. Though they claim to be students of the French and Russian revolutions, all too many of the thinkers and strategists of the conservative movement appear to have forgotten that those who begin revolutions are seldom the ones who finish them. Indeed, they are often among the first victims of the brutal forces they unleash upon the world."

Michael Lind
UP FROM CONSERVATISM
From the Introduction

Only one who has read the modern psychological work of Alice Miller can imagine how Freud's heart must have broke years after writing THE AETIOLOGY OF HYSTERIA in 1896. In this book, which Freudians still try to pretend he never wrote, he actually proved children are not sexually promiscuous by nature; they creatively express their suffering from forms of sexual abuse-usually experienced at the hands of adult guardians and parents-via cryptic fantasies. (He abandoned this work after extreme protest from pedophiliac colleagues in 1897 and invented the destructive Oedipal Conflict myth in its place; which has caused a century of psychological agony to millions of children and adults around the world.) Similarly, one can almost see "Zbig" crying the same kind of tears Freud must have cried after writing OUT OF CONTROL: the kind of tears cried when one realizes that, as with every Faustian contract, the devil is eventually coming to collect on the soul you sold him for power and success.

"Enlightenment," the Buddha said, "is progressive disillusionment." Ironically, the progressive disillusionment demanded by OUT OF CONTROL is a product of what it reveals in that context: Dr. Z's other books--and those who created public and foreign policy through them--are among the greatest contributors to the violent, materialistic and immoral side of our national character AND the virtually inevitable American Empire apocalypse he, with OUT OF CONTROL, so deftly details. The sacred iconoclasm of historian Gore Vidal, among others, gives us a new look at Truman, Stalin, World War II Japan, the Dulles Brothers and the Cold War in its entirety. Zbig, in his historically erudite but sadly cryptic way, acknowledges this with OUT OF CONTROL via acknowledging what it all has produced.

But never does Dr. Brzezinski tell us the complete truth, historically or personally. (For example, see Mossadeq Ahmed's THE WAR ON FREEDOM [where Brzezinski's THE GRAND CHESSBOARD is quoted voluminously] for his chronicling of both US involvement in the Islamic resistance to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and what it has produced today. The CIA under Dr. Brzezinski during the Carter Administration, in order to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan, helped create "The Base": a collection of CIA-trained Islamic militants known in Arabic as *Al Qaeda*. I'll let you guess who one of their Sau'di leaders was.) What, for example, can Dr. Z say to us regarding the discoveries of investigative journalist Gerard Colby, author of THY WILL BE DONE, THE CONQUEST OF THE AMAZON: NELSON ROCKEFELLER AND EVANGELISM IN THE AGE OF OIL:

"Nelson Rockefeller, who died in 1979, owned vast Latin American real estate and cattle ranching, mining, industrial and financial interests centered in Brazil... Rockefeller-a top Latin American adviser to presidents from FDR to Nixon, and Ford's vice-president-played a dominant role in shaping the U.S.'s interventionist policy in Latin America, according to this blistering expose based on 18 years of research...Colby...and his wife, Dennett, a freelance journalist, charge that Rockefeller, his banks and their allies, working with the CIA, bolstered repressive regimes in Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Paraguay. Forcible dislocation of native peoples, hunger, disease, genocide and the ongoing destruction of the Amazon rain forest are the legacy of these policies, in the authors' analysis..."

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"...the authors document the deaths or uprooting of hundreds of thousands of Amazonian and South and Central American tribal peoples. They describe an unlikely and sinister alliance among the Rockefeller family, America's largest missionary organization, and the American government-an alliance formed to benefit each of its members. The Rockefellers wanted oil and other natural resources; the Wycliffe Bible Translators wanted to spread the Word of God; and the American government wanted to fight communism. This is a disheartening, tragic story that needs to be told and will attract much attention."

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Will "Zbig" fully admit and detail how recent history shows to what degree we in the democratic/"free market" West have become exactly what Marx and Engels said we were, before, during and after our fight to rid the world of the political philosophies created in their name? Or his role in it? This, not cheap sex, reality TV and the 60's, lay at the core of the American moral identity like a virus--as shown by real history; the history not found in our children's propagandistic textbooks.

OUT OF CONTROL could be evidence of what Zbig saw on his road to Damascus. The important question, however, is this: to whom does he and our current Administration really pray to now...and why?

An ironically important book.

Zbig Ego.......2002-01-03

To understand this book, its contents, or its significance, one must first understand its author. This is not always important, but in this case, it is essential. Zbigniew Brezinski, or Zbig for short, is the former National Security Advisor for the U.S. government, a Council on Foreign Relations member and former co-director, the co-founder with David Rockefeller of the Trilateral Commission, and probably the leading intellectual of the reigning political and economic power elite, to use a phrase coined by sociologist C. Wright Mills. In other words, he is the voice of the reigning powers, to a very large degree.
In that sense, his books are well worth reading - but not for the reason of wanting to take his advice, but for seeing what the power elite are up to. He stated his goals and values very clearly in an earlier book, Between Two Worlds: America's Role in the Technotronic Era, when he unequivocally stated that it would soon become possible to maintain continuous surveillance on virtually every person on the planet, and that this would support the overall goal of eliminating national sovereignties and democracies, under the leadership of an international elite-ruled global governance. He is, in short, a closet fascist. He wants, and advocates, an Orwellian society of technological surveillance under an elite-run global feudalism. I'm sure he would choose more pleasant euphemisms for global totalitarian dominance by a few wealthy bankers, financiers and intellectuals, but I will call it what it is: fascism. Read his books. But don't forget the infantile grandiosity, the supreme hubris, and the Orwellian dreams of technological global totalitarianism that is the motive behind them. His books and his own words will make that clear, if anyone is willing to wade through them.

Don't Say Noone Warned You..........2001-12-04

Although I have never been anything of a Brzezinski-admirer, I cannot help expressing my deep respect of this piece. "Out of Control" is a thoughtful and greatly written analysis of the current state of global politics, drawing on numerous past examples to make the ultimate point that the world is going out of control due to a multitude of reasons, and unless urgent measures are taken to prevent such developments, the most dismal misgivings of mankind may come true. If you don't feel intimidated by Brzezinki's language and style at the very beginning of the book, you'll probably enjoy it quite a lot.

Brzezisnki starts with a ghastly overview of the world's (read Europe's) 20th century, figuratively depicting it as the century of "megadeaths and metamyths." He occasionally breaks his typical dry academic style to make a number of strong emotional points, which in a way distinguishes "Out of Control" from anything else I have read by him. Nazism and Communism, Hitler and Stalin, are depicted as monstrous as one may expect them to be, and by doing so Mr. Brzezinski prepares the ground for his further claims that humanity is at peril.

As one can rightfully expect him to do, Zbigniew Brezinski does not fail to discuss widely America and its role in current international politics. But this time he not only points out America's supremacy, but also pinpoints a number of fundamental drawbacks and faults of American cultural and social life, the grass-root debasement of principles and values, as well as certain economic weaknesses which might ulimately take global leadership out of US hands. The most seroius concerns, however, are raised not just by America's inability to tackle its economic problems and thus its failure to stand firmly in a world of ever rising significance of the markets, but rather by its decreasing ability to provide global leadership and contribution in the creation of globally shared set of values. And, what is even worse, at this precise moment there is no viable alternative to this; no other power is ripe enough to bear the challenges of such a burden. Given that America's own society is gradually degrading, driven by omnipresent and omnipowerful consumerist culture, it is hard to believe that America can offer universally valid human values, which might evetually lead to a "clash of civilizations" (to use Huntington's term). In light of the September 11 events, one may only admire Brzezisnki's tremendous scope of political insight.

Consistent with the above, "Out of Control" is also interesting in that it provides a profound discussion of the basic philosphical stives of modern man: who am I, where do I come from, where am I going? Brezisnki correctly points out that "for mankind the gap between enhanced expectations and actual capabilities may have never been as great as it is today." Modernization has increasingly being causing frustration of individuals, which in turn produces aggression. This is what ultimately might lead to a world impossible to control, although Brzezinksi does not explicitly state it.

Another discussion so typical for this author is also the one about global power distribution and the viability and competitiveness of other political actors. He offers something similar in "The Grand Chessboard," and it is shaping up as one of his trade marks. In "Out of Control," however, the options open for the establishment of a new world order are somewhat modified by the pace of globalization. The rivalry we have been witnessing recently is not one between nation-states, but rather one of the rich vs. the poor. The latter, however, because of growing anxieties over inequality, are becoming increasingly susceptible to mass mobilization: another token that something is going wrong in world affairs. And again the fresh memories of the attacks on the WTC come to mind; they are reminiscent of Brzezinski, aren't they?

"Out of Control" is indeed a great book; although it adopts a somewhat Hobbesean view (by implying that human nature is inherently aggressive) and a marked instrumentalist perspective, it is a perfect depiction of the state of modern global politics, with its possible negative implications. It was written almost ten years ago; nevertheless, it sounds just as thoughtful and live today as it has probably been back then.

All Carter's Advisors were not Wimps.......2001-02-07

This is a good book, by the Polish-born national security advisor to Jimmy Carter, who called him "Zbig." We'll just say Z. Z has a great summary of the essentially religious nature of communism, and opens with a great, nearly Solzhenitsyn-esque sweeping condemnation of the whole communist enterprise, ending with a math exercise of all the people who have been killed by communism.

Now that communism is flying apart, he previews some of the challenges facing the world, focusing on what Z refers to as the "oblong" of instablility covering the Middle East on the West, and swinging South and East to cover the areas including Armenia and the various "Stan" countries around there, Iraq, Iran, and East to India. It is here, says Z, that the first Post-Hiroshima/Nagasaki nuclear weapons will probably be used.

He also meditates on the challenges posed by genetic engineering.

Zbig is a serious guy, as he implies by informing us that the book's introduction was written in Northeast Harbor, ME, which gives away the Rockefeller antecedents to his career, and achieves harmonic convergence with the John McCloy-esque brand of service-provider to the establishment.

This book came out almost the same time as Bill Clinton's "health security card" State of the Nation address, and to me, this highlighted the essential role that Zbig has played in helping us to realize the relative triteness of so much domestic U.S. political pandering (especially by Democrats like Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton) compared to the harrowing problems facing us and everyone else internationally. Zbig's particular tragedy was having to mount his platform of international advice-giving at the pleasure of these destructive, immature half-statesmen who generally made the world more dangerous by ignoring or talking past real problems.

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