Source World Steel Dynamics, Steel Strategist, May 2003.

Source World Steel Dynamics, The Steel Strategist, 24, June 1998.

And I thought, Well, sir, I am not a strategist, nor am I specialist. I am merely a storyteller.

Perhaps, then, Asia is the answer. Perhaps the Singapore based strategist Kishore Mahbubani is correct to write off the West and tell us that the future lies in his own continent.

HONG KONG The eighteenth century German military strategist Carl von Clausewitz defined war as the continuation of politics by different means, and, like the ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu, believed that securing peace meant preparing for violent conflict. As the world becomes increasingly tumultuous apparent in the revival of military struggle in Ukraine, continued chaos in the Middle East, and rising tensions in East Asia such thinking could not be more relevant.

In this bracingly honest talk, international security strategist Thomas Barnett outlines a post Cold War solution for the foundering U.S. military that is both sensible and breathtaking in its simplicity Break it in two.

In this funny 3 minute talk, social strategist Renny Gleeson breaks down our always on social world where the experience we're having right now is less interesting than what we'll tweet about it later.

Cynicism and schadenfreude may also be playing a role. Raja Mohan, a prominent Indian strategist, notes that Europe has never ceased to lecture Asia on the virtues of regionalism, but now seems unable to cope with its own regional security challenges.

In a speech marking the Great Helmsman s 110th birthday in late 2003, he declared Mao to be a great proletariat revolutionary strategist and theorist. While Deng had castigated Mao s leftist errors, Hu s hagiographic address made no mention of his manifold blunders.

To my chief strategist, David Axelrod, who's been a partner with me every step of the way. To the best campaign team ever assembled in the history of politics! You made this happen, and I am forever grateful for what you've sacrificed to get it done.

According to an estimate by Kathy Matsui, Chief Japan Equity Strategist at Goldman Sachs, the country s GDP could rise by 15 , and 8.2 million new jobs could be created, if Japanese women gain equality of opportunity at work. Abe has said that womanomics is the most important pillar of Abenomics, his government s growth strategy.

The most important instrument driving this surge was margin trading, which enabled investors to borrow heavily to purchase shares. According to Bank of America strategist David Cui, some CN 7.5 trillion ( 1.2 trillion) in market positions are being carried on margin, equivalent to some 13 of A share s market cap and 34 of its free float.

Throughout China s recent rise from poverty to relative prosperity and global economic power, the fundamentals of its statecraft and strategic doctrine have remained largely unchanged. Since the era of Mao Zedong, China has adhered to the Zhou Dynasty military strategist Sun Tzu s counsel subdue the enemy without any battle by exploiting its weaknesses and camouflaging offense as defense.

Just how weakened America is in the region matters. As the US strategist Daniel Twining has observed Over the coming four years, US leadership will be essential for the consolidation of a wide ranging strategic partnership with India, as well as for efforts to prevent Pakistan s many pathologies from spilling over in ways that undermine fundamental US (and Indian) interests.

Just as Mao Zedong started his invasion of Tibet while the world was preoccupied with the Korean War, so he chose a perfect time to invade India, as recommended by the ancient strategist Sun Tzu. The attack coincided with a major international crisis that brought the United States and the Soviet Union within a whisker of nuclear war over the stealthy deployment of Soviet missiles in Cuba.

To answer that question, one can look to the writings of the Chinese strategist Yan Xuetong, whose book Ancient Chinese Thought Modern Chinese Power argues that all countries must recognize and accept China s centrality to the world as the Middle Kingdom. Moreover, China has thus far shown little interest in discussing the standards by which the multilateral institutions it has launched will be governed or, indeed, the extent to which they will be truly multilateral.