Repeating history

History

John Stewart’s Interview with Brzezinski, which I linked to in the previous post, made me thinking about the lack of organizational wisdom in the way governments handling their strategy.

In particular I was wondering how a country that just recently , in historical terms, made Afghanistan a graveyard for the red army fail into the same trap in Iraq? How a country with the knowledge and experience of people like Kissinger , Brzezinski and many others repeat its recent mistakes from Vietnam, and repeat the mistakes of it opponent which it so skillfully exploited?

It is simply amazing how little countries learn, not only from other countries experience, but from their own. It is also clearly demonstrate the truth of this quote :"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Tags: Organizational Wisdom Strategy Repeating History USSR Iraq Vietnam Afghanistan