The Master Strategist
Posted by ReactionaryCaroline Glick wrote The Master Strategist describing McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin in strategic terms. Glick is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy and a former Captain in the IDF. Here’s the lead-in to her analysis:
Related content:Both the challenges of war and the challenges of politics are challenges of leadership. And both military strategists and political strategists agree that the most basic leadership challenge in both arenas is to know and understand yourself - your strengths and your weaknesses - and to know your opponents and their strengths and weaknesses. While this may seem like basic common sense, it is quite amazing to see how often it is ignored.
The rarity of this sort of strategic wisdom in the public sphere was brought to a fore this week in the political uproar generated in by Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain’s selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running-mate. McCain’s selection of Palin was remarkable because in selecting her from a list of possible choices, he made a decision that embraced rather than ignored this most basic challenge of leadership.
September 8th, 2008 at 11:36 am
And here is probably the best article on the whole media reaction to Palin’s nomination. Yes its in the Guardian but don’t let that throw you.