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After all, the policy was designed not by the domestic security establishment, but by Trump’s chief strategist, the avowed culture warrior Stephen Bannon.
He has pandered to the far right by installing fanatics in top White House posts, including Stephen K. Bannon as chief strategist, Betsy DeVos as education secretary, Scott Pruitt as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and Rick Perry as energy secretary.
Then there is the “ideological front” model, initially advocated by a famous jihadi strategist, Abu Musab al-Suri.
James Carville, a campaign
strategist
for President Bill Clinton (who benefited from his own Southern-infused Kennedy-like charm), coined a phrase – “It’s the economy, stupid” – so catchy that it is frequently invoked to this day.
With the election of Trump, who has named a white supremacist as his chief adviser and strategist, America could cross into Orwell territory.
One student was Adam Michnik, later a long-term political prisoner, who became a political
strategist
of Solidarity in the 1980’s.
PRINCETON – James Carville, Bill Clinton’s chief campaign
strategist
in 1992, famously expressed a bit of established insider wisdom about winning elections: “It’s the economy, stupid.”
Like Trump’s chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, Wilders views the world through a racist prism, and he believes that he is engaged in a battle to save Western civilization from Islam.
A fairly enigmatic figure, he has a higher degree in Islamic studies, and is a gifted
strategist
and orator.
Trump has also launched a war on the media, which his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, has labeled the “opposition party.”
Putin may not be a grand strategist, and he certainly wouldn’t mind a buffoon in the White House; but he knows an overly risky bet when he sees one.
But, in a typical comment, Indian-American
strategist
Ashley Tellis observed trenchantly that India had chosen “to invest in a plane, not a relationship.”
A good portion of what was released before the book’s publication concerns a battle between two of the most talkative, argumentative, self-regarding braggarts US politics has ever seen: Trump and his one-time chief strategist, Stephen Bannon.
His efforts to revise Japan’s pacifist constitution, restore pride in its wartime record, and discredit “elitist” mainstream media, such as the left-of-center newspaper Asahi Shimbun, have earned him the praise of Donald Trump’s former strategist, Stephen Bannon, who called Abe a “Trump before Trump.”
As one Indian
strategist
put it to me during a recent visit, “By 2030, we envisage the US, China, and India as the three largest powers in world politics.
To answer that question, one can look to the writings of the Chinese
strategist
Yan Xuetong, whose book Ancient Chinese Thought/Modern Chinese Power argues that all countries must recognize and accept China’s centrality to the world as the Middle Kingdom.
Just as Mao Zedong started his invasion of Tibet while the world was preoccupied with the Korean War, so he chose a perfect time to invade India, as recommended by the ancient
strategist
Sun Tzu.
Trump’s chief strategist, Stephen Bannon – a former executive chairman of the American “alt-right” disinformation website Breitbart News – has openly offered to help Le Pen win the French presidential election next spring.
Among the features that distinguish the US from “the dominant great powers of the past,” according to the distinguished British
strategist
Lawrence Freedman, is that “American power is based on alliances rather than colonies.”
On some interpretations, Trump’s demagogy is in the service of his chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, who defends a dark vision of a coming war of civilizations.
Christopher Granville, a former British diplomat and now chief
strategist
for United Financial Group, a Russian investment bank, analyzes Russia's long-term interests and likely actions.
Raja Mohan, a prominent Indian strategist, notes that Europe “has never ceased to lecture Asia on the virtues of regionalism,” but now seems unable to cope with its own regional security challenges.
But he is an astute strategist, has a good policy brain and decent core values, and is an excellent communicator one-on-one and in small groups (if less compelling in other settings).
And Stephen Bannon, his former chief strategist, has announced that he will spend half of his time in Europe to help build an alliance of nationalist parties and win a majority in next May’s European Parliament elections.
This act of local horror was also one of national significance, for it vindicated the late US diplomat and
strategist
George F. Kennan’s warning that American foreign policymakers should hold in check their urge to act, especially militarily.
Since the era of Mao Zedong, China has adhered to the Zhou Dynasty military
strategist
Sun Tzu’s counsel: “subdue the enemy without any battle” by exploiting its weaknesses and camouflaging offense as defense.
The main
strategist
of the Pearl Harbor attack, Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku, a highly intelligent man who had studied at Harvard and knew the US very well, had been a vocal opponent of the war.
This is the approach of a strategist, not a spoiler.
Neither
strategist
nor spoiler, Europe is essentially a systemic facilitator.
The Democrats fared much worse in the elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives than the polls had predicted (they were wrong again), with the Senate probably remaining in the hands of the Republican master
strategist
Mitch McConnell – unless the Democrats sweep two run-off elections to be held in Georgia in early January.
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