Strategy

Clausewitz defined strategy as "the art of the employment of battles as a means to gain the object of war." B.H, Liddell Hart shortens this a bit with "the art of distribution and applying military means to fulfil the ends of policy." This second definition reminds me of Obama’s metaphorical (but equally real) war on our traditional, Constitutional Republic. It was Lenin, B.H.Liddell Hart the military historian says, who "enunciated the axiom that ‘the soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.’ Is this not what the Obama version of governmental administration is now attempting to do in America? Wear down the people with lies and misdirections until they are ready and willing to accept any or all of the leader’s solutions, at which point Obama can ‘divide and conquer’ with his liberal takeover of a coup de grace? Hart also says that the key idea is ‘strategic operation’ rather than ‘battle.’ The "true aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this." Why do you think Obama uses the atmosphere of a battle to win his socialist initiatives like the government takeover of businesses and banks, the call for ‘sympathetic’ judges and his agenda of cap and trade and universal health care? Lastly, Hart notes that the experience of history "brings ample evidence that the downfall of civilized States tends to come not from direct assaults of foes but from internal decay, combined with the consequences of exhaustion of war." Do not the liberals like Obama, the popular media, politicians and activists continually bombard us Americans with the need to war on something? At the same time, the moral fiber of our country is allowed to gradually rot away.