Simplifying Strategic Concepts: Thinking about what landpower, seapower, airpower (and the marines) ought to do

The principal United States Armed Services – Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Army.  Image from Disney’s “The Little Mermaid.” I’ve been thinking a lot about simplification lately. Bruce Lee said once that “the height of cultivation runs to simplicity.”  Of course, there’s a downside to this process – Mencken would retort, “for every complex problem…