Want Better Strategists? Teach Social Science
Jim Golby
June 19, 2020
America needs better strategists. And if that wasn’t clear enough from the past two decades of U.S. strategy, the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s new vision and guidance statement for professional military education brings this need into focus.
This clarity provides a welcome and necessary change and should drive reform. Unfortunately, proposals to fix professional military education often begin with one’s preferred methods. James Lacey’s recent essay, for example, suggests the new vision “demands large increases in the use of history-based case studies†despite the fact that the Joint Chiefs use the word “history†only twice in their 11-page document. In my reading, the guidance is far less prescriptive.
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