Marlborough: His Life and Times by Winston S. ChurchillReview by: Eliot A. CohenForeign Affairs, Vol. 76, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1997), p. 221Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20048226 .

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THE CARTOON SYNDICATE

tary sociology, takes a different tack,

arguing that officership has undergone a fundamental transition to what he

calls a "constabulary" model, that is to

say, increasing resemblance to police

forces, which organize and apply vio

lence in tightly controlled and limited circumstances and retain close links

with the society they protect. Two bril

liant works that disagree but encompass the most penetrating assessment of the

military profession in a turbulent age.

Mar/borough: His Life and Times, by

winston s. churchill. NewYork:

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933-38, 6 vols., 2,561 pp.

Nominally a work about an eighteenth

century soldier, this is in fact a sustained

meditation on statecraft and war by the

greatest war leader of our time. Churchill's

reflections on the perplexities of alliances, the paradoxes of strategy, and the stresses

of combat are timeless. Perhaps most

striking is his insistence on the limits of

human foresight and the intractability of

coalition relationships?a feature of this

work that attracted the warm admiration

of one of the first contemporary students

of management, Peter Drucker. His lit

erary art is evident throughout; he also

supervised closely the drawing of the set's

numerous magnificent maps. Written

during the 1930s, the six volumes reflect

hard-bought wisdom distilled from expe rience and sustained research. Reading the work, it does not seem

surprising that

the author, a few years later, would lead

Great Britain and, in some measure, the

entire democratic world safely through the greatest storm of the century.

The United States DAVID C HENDRICKSON

U.S. Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic. BY WALTER LIPPMANN. Boston:

Little, Brown, 1943,177 pp. "Without the controlling principle,"

Lippmann wrote in 1943, "that the nation

must maintain its objectives and its power in equilibrium, its purposes within its

means and its means equal to its purposes,

its commitments related to its resources

and its resources adequate to its commit

ments, it is impossible to think at all about

foreign affairs." When foreign policy commentators go to heaven, the better

ones pass under a portal engraven with

these words. For over six decades, Lipp mann navigated within the interstices of

the gap that he diagnosed and made fa

mous, displaying an uncanny gift for

shrewd and prophetic judgment. In this

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