Sarah Paine

And then you teach it.

Oh, and by the way, as of like six months ago, I've moved to the Maritime History Center, so I'm no longer teaching.

So I'm just doing research at this stage.

Well, I think the whole point of the curriculum at the War College is to get people out of the operational level.

So the junior course is about the strategic effects of operation.

It's like, okay, Pearl Harbor operation.

To me, as an example, I'll use Pearl Harbor.

It's an A-plus military operation.

They sink everything.

Of course, it's shallow water and we raise most of it afterwards.

They lose nothing.

I mean, boy, how can you do a more perfectly choreographed?

military operation than that one, except it turns an absolutely isolationist country into one hell bent coming after Japan.

And that would be called a strategic disaster.

So you got to be cautious about your military actions and think about what are the strategic consequences.

And it's very difficult to gauge those accurately.

So that's one big issue that you need to get at.

And then for the

Seniors, it's okay, great, you're an officer and you understand if you're in the Army, you understand how to use armies in the Navy, about how to use navies.

But how does this integrate with all the other instruments of national power that actually account for how wars turn out?