The Art of War

[Richard Fiero]

alice wellintown wrote:
> >
> > Indeed. The US should have attacked Britain and Germany where the World
> > Trade Center stunt was actually hatched rather than a pair of insignificant
> > countries without any proper means of retaliation, except of course Iraq
> > balanced off Iran which now owns it all.
>
>Own it all? You mean the bomb? Rather cold comfort when you are in a
>noose that is tightening.

I did not mean the bomb but that would be part of the devolution of 
the Great Game which the British managed with a very small footprint 
and the US cannot with a very large and intrusive footprint.
On games, it's interesting that Pinker's revival of game theory in 
popular culture should intersect with V.'s Great Game.