Finally, The Points...

... I was making for more than decade and wrote FOUR books on that: 

I agree with Mearsheimer (yes, I do agree with him on tactical issues of governance periodically) that Washington as a whole should take the course in strategy, but here is the problem--how can you study strategy when the real history of USSR/Russia--incidentally, the country which defeated ALL European and Asian great powers (ask Kwantung Army) and has an unrivaled school of strategic thought--is either presented as a caricature or is absent altogether in the West? I can reiterate for the record--nation which venerates General Patton as a great general has issues with understanding the warfare. Not to mention the fact of buying utter revisionist POV of people who Soviet Union demolished in WW II. What can I say. Average US Congressman or Senator is illiterate, uncultured person with no understanding of warfare or the world outside. Yes, that goes for many (not all) cadre US military. This ignorance, eventually, spread itself top bottom--from White House down to Field Manuals and Doctrine Publications of the US military. So, here we are--in the moment of it all coming to a head. And yes, the US has an amazing record of losing wars starting from 1950. Some achievement. Ah, yes, and then there is this real economy and real technology. Pop-corn...