Dr. Colin Gray on the Teaching of Strategy

I'm about a third of the way through Dr. Gray's "Schools for Strategy: Teaching Strategy for 21st Century Conflict" (download available here), and I'm finding it quite interesting--perhaps you might too.

One paragraph (following a brief discussion of COIN and CT) caught my eye:

"Because we believe that we understand
the conflicts of the 2000s, with their highlighting of the
phenomenon of the “accidental guerrilla,” we need to
be alert to the danger that our new found confidence
will prove largely misplaced should we assume it to
be authoritative for the conflicts of the years to come."

Bryan McGrath