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

This commentary is in response to Lukas Milevski's article Strategy Versus Statecraft in published in the Summer 2014 issue of Parameters (vol. 44, no. 2). Lukas Milevski contends Russia, in at least the initial Crimean phase of its ongoing invasion of Ukraine, employed strategy while the West used statecraft. Readers may be inclined to agree with his argument, as within this framework Milevski implements the social sciences definitions of strategy and statecraft. However, his analysis is far to