Armchair strategists talk about "balancing the ticket, " but it's like balancing a Great Dane with a Chihuahua.

FORBES: Commentary

Before the war began, many pundits and armchair strategists were asked to predict the length of the war.

CNN: War Strategy: Planners must ask 'What if?'

Some armchair strategists discern a ray of comfort in the exchange of non-conventional threats between Israel and Syria: it creates, they say, an appearance of deterrent balance.

ECONOMIST: Israel