Sarah Paine

Whereas armies can be, if your goal is, I wanna occupy all of France or better yet, the Holland, something smaller.

Yeah, an army can probably, might be able to do that for you, one instrument of national power.

But Britain's reliant on a Navy and doesn't like to have a big standing army.

And so they're thinking in terms of diplomacy and allies and working economics, making money from trade.

And so they are the ones who coined the term grand strategy.

It is their gift to us.

And it absolutely informs their thinking at a very macro level.

So no one thing is entirely explanatory.

Also, we human beings game the system.

The moment I tell you you're Japanese and you think this way is the moment I go, oh, that's what she thinks.

Ha, ha, ha, ha.

We're going to do something different.

Right?

So this is the problem with human beings.

Yeah, it's an excellent question.

And what you're doing is feeding me back the Greek principle of logic, which is the law of non-contradiction.

You cannot simultaneously believe mutually exclusive things.

So what's going on?

You're telling me it's all hierarchical, and now you're telling me junior officers are doing, or mid-level officers are doing things.

What's going on here?