From LowRider44M@1:229/2 to All on Wednesday, August 22, 2018 12:39:43
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One cannot go far wrong by employing Thucydides as a foundation for any model. As General George Marshall reminded us: “I doubt seriously whether a man can think with full wisdom and with deep convictions regarding certain of the basic
issues today who
has not at least reviewed in his mind the period of the Peloponnesian War and the fall of Athens.” But Marshall surely did not mean for policymakers to end
their studies with the Peloponnesian War. Rather, Thucydides is but a starting point for a much
wider historical study aimed at revealing the true nature of strategic rivalries and the character of their ensuing conflicts.