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5 June 2016

Strategy: Quad Conceptual Reasoning

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The ends-based, rationalist model of strategy has dominated institutions of professional military education to the point it has become an ideology that limits the education of the professional military strategist. This chapter proposes a quad-conceptual framework that permits educators and practitioners of military strategy to contemplate simultaneous forms of reasoning beyond the ends-based rational model. This broadened perspective advocates a patterned view of strategic reasoning.

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