By the Editor: Real debate requires challenging views to be tested and refined. Views seen from a distant perspective can often enhance the quality of debate. The Author proffers, from his vantage point in the US, such a view here; emphasising a truism that we often fail to address strategy, which must come first or we will live by Sun Tsu’s maxim that tactics (in this context horse trading force elements between Services) without true strategy is inevitably the noise before defeat. It is perhaps no coincidence that I write this short article on 2 September 2020, the 75th anniversary of the si…
