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As long as more than half of wealth is held by aristocracy the political and religious wars are not the point. The power is with the rich. In Korea right now Samsung and Hyundai are running the show

I have always been fascinated with the life of knowledge. Everything old really is new again when it is rediscovered. I studied business strategy shortly after leaving the service in 1972. I was taught by mentors who had learned it during the 1950s, at GE, then a leader in a new concept then call "customer-oriented marketing". My mentors provided me with the text books they had written during that time as well as studies in "scientific management" dating from the same era. What really surprised me was the fact that so much carefully gleaned knowledge was either forgotten or discarded, much as civilizations were ignorant of the knowledge learned by their predecessors. (Think surgery practiced by Egyptians or engineering by Italians during the Renaissance) Although I left business consulting for computer sciences in the later half of the 1980s, I have remained an interested witness to the management debacles of later decades. Sadly, I believe that the author of this article is onto something. Military leaders are studying for MBAs and there losing their edge as strategic thinkers. America would be better served if business leaders attended our service academies to study strategy. As for our political leaders, they are beyond hope...