On "Strategy versus Statecraft in Crimea"
Journal: The US Army War College Quarterly Parameters
Year: 2014

This commentary in response to Lukas Milevski's article Strategy Versus Statecraft in Crimea published in the Summer 2014 issue of Parameters (vol. 44, no. 2). In a clash of opposing wills, the side that willing to resort to violence will usually defeat the side that not. This truism, convincingly stated in a single sentence, occupied Lukas Milevski for more than a dozen pages in the last issue of Parameters. Clausewitz made the same point rather more succinctly almost 200 years ago: If one side