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The Art of Peace - Engaging a Complex World (Paperback)
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The Art of Peace - Engaging a Complex World (Paperback)
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Sun Tzu, author of 'The Art of War', believed that the acme of
leadership consists in figuring out how to subdue the enemy with
the least amount of fighting-a fact that America's Founders also
understood, and practiced with astonishing success. For it to work,
however, a people must possess both the ability and the willingness
to use all available instruments of power in peace as much as in
war. US foreign policy has increasingly neglected the instruments
of civilian power and become overly dependent on lethal solutions
to conflict. The steep rise in unconventional conflict has
increased the need for diplomatic and other non-hard power tools of
statecraft. The United States can no longer afford to sit on the
proverbial three-legged national security stool ("military,
diplomacy, development"), where one leg is a lot longer than either
of the other two, almost forgetting altogether the fourth
leg-information, especially strategic communication and public
diplomacy. The United States isn't so much becoming militarized as
DE civilianized. According to Sun Tzu, self-knowledge is as
important as knowledge of one's enemy: "if you know neither
yourself nor the enemy, you will succumb in every battle."
Alarmingly, the United States is deficient on both counts. And
though we can stand to lose a few battles, the stakes of losing the
war itself in this age of nuclear proliferation are too high to
contemplate.
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