In a 12 page essay, discuss grand strategy and its interrelationships with intelligence and rationality (to include patterns of cognition and “worldviews”). In your estimation, what is grand strategy and how can intelligence help to shape it with maximum effect? What are the pitfalls associated with intelligence analysis and rationality, and the traps or blind spots into which they often lead the strategist and the analyst?
Be sure to do the following:
1. Provide your definition of grand strategy.
2. Discuss how the making of grand strategy and intelligence interact.
3. Discuss how the pitfalls associated with rationality can derail the policy and intelligence processes, resulting in muddled and ineffective grand strategy.
4. Use at least one historical example from your readings to make your case.
5. Refer to at least two prominent theorists and their key ideas to make your case.
