Reading the history of strategy gives students access to lessons that earlier generations learned at considerable human cost. Clarke recommends a history of strategy that he uses with first-year students and at his Cambridge summer school. The purpose is to refine strategic thinking through other people's experience. Learning an established lesson from a book avoids paying for the same mistake again in lives.
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Strategy history preserves lessons paid for in blood
Studying the history of strategy lets officers and analysts inherit hard-earned lessons instead of discovering the same failures through new casualties.