Richard’s Reviews > On Grand Strategy > Status Update

The sections on overreach in the discussion of Clausewitz and Tolstoy seem to point towards a way to deal with...ahem...other overbearing personalities. But getting a tyrant to reach too far invariably requires sacrifice of the space to stretch him out.

I didn't, however, need yet another admonishment to read Tolstoy and Thucydides.

So many ideas to digest: managing means and ends, the importance of flexibility, and the way said flexibility can be lost as one gets older.