It seems I'm not the only conservative in America who has doubts about the necessity of a nation-building war strategy.

CNN: My hardest decision: Saying no to Afghanistan war

The Panel views the two-military-theater-of-war construct as a force-sizing function and not a strategy.

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Yet those who complain she lacks a grand strategy to subdue a messy post-cold war world may be missing the point about Albright.

CNN: Blunt But Flexible

Lacking charisma or a record of delivering better public services, he has built his electoral strategy on delivering better security for war-weary Iraqis.

ECONOMIST: Bombs in Iraq

If Mr Bush had a doctrine it was his belief in pre-emptive war, enunciated in the National Security Strategy of 2002 and enacted in Iraq the next year.

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One retired General, Jim Dubik, who helped mastermind the surge in Iraq and is now a senior fellow at the Institute for the Study of War, told me that for eight years America adopted the wrong strategy, counter-terrorism, which allowed the Taliban to grow.

BBC: Secretary of Defence Robert Gates's last battle

Like the ill-fated British Light Brigade's charge against the Russians in the Crimean War, Pittsburgh's strategy was a suicide mission.

WSJ: NFL: Breaking Down the NFL's Best Weekend

After the Second World War, candidates began to campaign principally by buying advertisements on television, and that strategy created an ever-increasing need for cash.

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