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Chapter 1 - The Peloponnesian War - Critique of Pericles’ Policy |
1. Difficult to execute 2. Lack of Credibility
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Chapter 2 - The First World War - Critique of Lord Grey (Foreign Minister of Britain) |
Unlike the Athenians, the British had the capacity to take all the measures needed to keep the peace through deterrence, though at great cost in money and to their traditional way of life. To achieve that purpose, however, required an action they were unwilling to take, even to contemplate and confront. Their refusal to adjust their strategic capacity to their policy undermined their ability to conduct that policy. The unacknowledged, perhaps unconscious, understanding of the gap between their goals and their capacity to achieve them led Grey and the British to pursue an indecisive middle course that made it even harder to keep the peace.
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Chapter 3 - Hannibal’s War: The 2nd Punic War |
The Romans pursued a policy that was both too hard and too soft, unclear, self-deceptive, and, therefore, dangerous. Unwilling to commit themselves clearly and firmly to the price of defending the peace they wanted to maintain, they had to pay the price of a long, bloody, costly, devastating, and almost fatal war. |
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Chapter 4 - The Second World War |
The British and French vastly overestimated the size and quality of the German Army and undervalued the quality of the Czechs, who were well equipped, had good morale, and had strong fortifications in the West.
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Chapter 5 - The Cuban Missile Crisis - Critique of Kennedy’s Policy |
Krushchev’s mistakes in the whole affair: 1. Misunderstanding the nature of the American government and political system, putting too much importance on the role of the President. |
