Today on Uncommon Knowledge, Amb. Charles Hill, author of Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order. Now that the chief executive has held office for a year-and-a-half, what does Amb. Hill make of the grand strategy, such as it is, of President Obama?

If you look at the National Security Strategy that has just come out under President Obama, you see that it’s entirely one-dimensional. But grand strategy is multi-dimensional. You can’t eliminate variables because the problem at hand is nothing but variables. Obama’s approach to things is to have an agenda that he just marches through…That’s the antithesis of strategy.

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