Tsar? How about a Grand Strategy?
Regarding today’s war tsar announcement, I think that a quote from yesterday’s WSJ sums up my take on the situation. What matters most is that:
“The war efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq are adrift in the absence of a properly developed grand strategy to integrate military and nonmilitary elements of national power,” said Stephen Biddle, a Council on Foreign Relations scholar who just returned from a monthlong tour advising Gen. David Petraeus, commander of multinational forces in Iraq.
However well intentioned, a war tsar won’t fix this problem.
