In a recent post, I discussed how Europe is strategically positioned for decline, based on Sun Tzu's idea that if you are not moving forward, you must naturally far victim to other's who are more aggressive. A new economic report by the European Chambers of Commerceby quantifies how much Europe has fallen behind the U.S. already: - In employment, Europe is where the US was in 1973. - In R&D, Europe is where the US was in 1979.

The following long posts shows how you would strategically create a position that would easily win on Social Security. On a radio show earlier this year, I predicted that Social Security reform was unlikely to happen this year.

Sun Tzu's strategy is all about positioning for the future. It is largely a matter of understand how one position leads naturally to the next. Peter Drucker, the guru of modern management, said that there are two ways of perfectly predicting the future. First, you can forecast based upon the natural progress of time. For example, without knowing anything about you, dear reader, I can predict you will be a year older on March 1st, 2006. The second way of predicting the future is a little more tricky. It requires knowing what you can do and then doing it.

For a long timer, the war of Islamic terrorists against America went unrecognized. Is there another war going on that is also unrecognized? This article by Nelson Ascher makes the credible case that the world's leftists, frustrated by the fall of the Berlin Wall, have been regrouping and reorganizing in a war against America as revenge for defeating worldwide Communism.

The court decision regarding tobacco today made the point that the US Government isn't a kleptocracy where the government can confiscate private property when it doesn't agree with the choices people make. Strategy only works if we understand the rules.