Is there strength without strategy? Can you be strong and yet have no basic, bottomline orientation toward success? Or is strength without strategy a temporary condition that precedes the fall?

I’ve been thinking a lot about Stalin lately. Specifically, the comment usually attributed to him that “quantity has a quality all its own.” The value in size. At a certain point, “Hulk smash.” Bigger actors have advantages and can afford to play them. Those advantages can be seen in several ways.