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The New Grand Strategy Book about elevating sustainability as a national strategic imperative is an impressive guide on how the US can shape a prosperous future.
M y daughter was at a sustainability conference in Santa Clara, California recently. She heard a talk by Mark (Puck) Mykleby describing his book, The New Grand Strategy – Restoring America’s Prosperity, Security and Sustainability in the 21st Century . Knowing how well his ideas aligned with mine, she told him, “You’ve got to talk with my dad.” My daughter, a municipal public policy analyst, continues to introduce me to some of the most interesting people.
Ed Friedrichs
From the book’s liner notes, “It had been 56 years since Dwight Eisenhower defined the last grand strategy, and Mullen needed a new strategic “The authors’ white paper argued for a strategy to recapture America’s greatness at home and abroad by elevating sustainability as a national strategic imperative.”
A few weeks later, I spoke to Puck, a former Marine aviator who goes by his call sign. I had no idea what we were going to talk about, but talk we did – for about an hour and a half. A little background: Puck and one of his co-authors are both ex-military, so I expected a strong lean toward the armed forces and how we should be positioned globally as we move forward in the 21st century – especially since Adm. Mike Mullen, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was the one who commissioned the two officers to devise a new grand strategy for America. Nothing could have been further from the truth.
See ED FRIEDRICHS, page 8
THE ZWEIG LETTER March 6, 2017, ISSUE 1190
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