Why chess-versus-Go national strategy analogies fail

Does the idea that Americans fight like chess players while the Chinese fight like Go players accurately describe their strategies?

The response rejects the analogy. American military history includes repeated encirclement and containment strategies, so a chess-versus-Go comparison is too simple to explain national behaviour.

The chess-versus-Go analogy does not fit the American examples discussed here. The Civil War's Anaconda Plan explicitly sought to surround and strangle the Confederacy. Warfare against Japan, Cold War containment, and later island-chain strategy supply further examples of encirclement rather than a simple attack on an opponent's centre. The answer also distinguishes judgments about political leadership from the professional capabilities accumulated within the armed forces.