The US Asian Pivot and Hemispherical Realities
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2016 8:58 pm
This guest article was written by William Laraque who is the Managing Director of US-International Trade Services.
The game of Go consists of moving opposing black and white disks in order to outflank your opponent. One of the finest examples of outflanking on the battlefield was Hannibal at Cannae. There, the Carthaginian weakened his center and the equally balanced front of the predictable and over-exhuberant Roman cohorts charged into Hannibal’s weakened center and became the victims of the world’s most classic double envelopment, resulting in some 70,000 Roman losses.
Fresh from our disastrous strategic involvement and subsequent retreats ... (read more)