Among his many books, he was proudest of those that investigated the workings of government in all its flawed, shambling efforts to balance fairness, fiscal prudence, big goals and multiple clashing interests.
As a nation with important interests in multiple regions, our forces must be capable of deterring and defeating aggression by an opportunistic adversary in one region even when our forces are committed to a large-scale operation elsewhere.
If the guys in operations could see a stack of Buy Large IBM interests from multiple brokers and very few Sells, then they could, with fair accuracy, tell which way the stock as going to turn at the open.