What Is a ‘Military Strategist’ Anyway?

What Is a ‘Military Strategist’ Anyway?
An Indian child plays around a huge chessboard model erected to mark the FIDE World Chess Championship at the Marina beach on the Bay of Bengal coast in Chennai, India, on Nov. 7, 2013. Arun Sankar K/AP Photo
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You’ve probably heard talking heads on network TV being described as “strategists.” But what does that term even mean?

Let us pretend for a moment you are a dentist. It took you years to receive the training you would need to be certified and licensed. Now, imagine I walk up to you in a meeting and say, “I am a dentist.” How long would it take you to figure out that if I, a person with no dental training, went messing around with your teeth or gums, it would not go well?

Lieutenant Colonel (US Army, Ret.) Darin Gaub is a co-founder of Restore Liberty, an international military strategist and foreign policy analyst, an executive leadership coach, and serves on the boards of multiple volunteer international, national, and state level organizations. He also serves as chairman of the Lewis and Clark County (Montana) Republican Central Committee.
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