The discussion distinguishes informed cross-disciplinary exchange from uninformed opinion. Expertise still matters, yet rigid specialty boundaries prevent useful ideas from traveling between fields. Julian Corbett remains worth reading because his strategic work reaches beyond a single profession, while Andrew Lambert is offered as a thinker who works problems through even if he would reject the label "strategist." Academia can provide the time and breadth needed to study several disciplines and communicate between them. Strategy then supplies the common framework and vocabulary for a serious exchange among people bringing different knowledge to the same war.
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Strategy as a common language
People from different fields can use strategy as a framework and common language. Its value comes from informed exchange across professional boundaries.