{"id":12274,"date":"2020-03-27T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12274"},"modified":"2020-03-26T12:44:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T19:44:33","slug":"trumps-strategic-foresight-is-being-put-to-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trumps-strategic-foresight-is-being-put-to-the-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Strategic Foresight Is Being Put to the Test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;ancient Greeks believed that true leadership in a crisis came down to what they called&nbsp;<em>pronoia<\/em>&nbsp;\u2014 the Greek word for \u201cstrategic foresight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some statesmen, such as Pericles and Themistocles, had it. Most others, such as the often brilliant and charismatic but impulsive Alcibiades, usually did not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cForesight\u201d in crisis means sizing up a nation\u2019s assets and debits, then maximizing advantages and minimizing liabilities. The leader with foresight, especially in times of irrational despair, then charts a rational pathway to victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such crisis leaders do not fall into panic and depression when the media shout \u201cCatastrophe!\u201d Nor do they preen when the same chorus screams \u201cGenius!\u201d in times of success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The English poet Rudyard Kipling would have defined such a gift as: \u201cIf you can keep your head when all about you \/ Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,\u201d or \u201cIf you can meet with Triumph and Disaster \/ And treat those two impostors just the same.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/03\/coronavirus-crisis-trump-strategic-foresight-put-to-test\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The&nbsp;ancient Greeks believed that true leadership in a crisis came down to what they called&nbsp;pronoia&nbsp;\u2014 the Greek word for \u201cstrategic foresight.\u201d Some statesmen, such as Pericles and Themistocles, had it. Most others, such as the often brilliant and charismatic but impulsive Alcibiades, usually did not. \u201cForesight\u201d in crisis means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3bY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4287,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/right-strategy-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":12274,"position":0},"title":"Right Strategy Again","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 29, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Gaza pullout will turn terror morass to conventional standoff. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services \"Brilliant tactician, lousy strategist.\" So goes the conventional wisdom about the old bulldozer Ariel Sharon. 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