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          In THE STRATEGISTS, Professor Phillips Payson O'Brien shows how the views these five leaders forged in WW1 are crucial to understanding how they fought WW2.

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          The Strategists by Phillips Payson O'Brien

          The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler 

          – How War Made Them and How They Made War

          By Phillips Payson O’Brien

          Dutton 2024

          Phillips Payson O’Brien, Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of St.

          Andrews at Fife and the author of 2019’s memorably interesting The Second Most Powerful Man in the World, opens his new book, The Strategists (append an endless subtitle), by making a distinction that will be familiar to his students but perhaps not to his general readers: the difference between strategy, the kinds of operational plans many generals and admirals could formulate, and grand strategy, which only their bosses could impose.

          Grand strategy, O’Brien writes, has two distinguishing characteristics: it’s implemented by people whose authority cannot be countermanded by a higher individual authority (dictators, naturally, but also canny elected officials), and it involves “actions above the c