Sarah Paine

Well, okay, I got news.

There's all kinds of expertise and it's important.

But if I take a really good hairdresser and make them an auto mechanic or the auto mechanic a hairdresser, it is not going to work out well.

So you have to line these things up correctly.

And this type two hubris is thinking, oh, I'm smart at one thing and therefore I can do everything.

And these people are making decisions in areas where they have no expertise and it will not work out well.

Yes.

What I'm about to say are my ideas.

They don't necessarily represent those of the U.S.

government, the U.S.

Navy Department, the U.S.

Department of Defense, or the Naval War College.

You got that clear?

Complain to me if you got problems.

All right.

I'm going to talk about Mao.

He's an incredibly consequential figure.

For the 20th century, he's one of the most consequential political or military figures.

And he's also one of the most important figures in Chinese history of any century.

And he's also a terribly significant military and political theorist.