CNN and the other legacy news networks have been parroting the Democrats’ notion that President Trump has no strategies for dealing with our country’s pressing issues. A protracted holding to a strategy will almost always fail. Really, a strategy isn’t a thing in the real-world. An axiom of Generals is; once the battle starts, the plan dies. In chess, this holds true also. That’s why chess players take so much time to think about their next move. The player has to consider the new variables for each move. Joseph Stalin implemented five-year plans throughout his tenure as the leader of the Soviet Union. He adhered to his strategies despite being presented with unforeseen variables.
This rigidity by Stalin caused the deaths of six to seven million people during the agricultural five-year plan. Stalin ignored human nature in his rush to implement collectivism in farming. Farmers killed their animals rather than giving up their ownership to the State. The farmers also withheld their grain, which in turn caused famines in the cities. Stalin began having those farmers shot. Production dropped all the while Stalin kept increasing his quotas on the farmers. This caused a famine in the breadbasket of the Soviet Union.
Stalin’s agricultural five-year plan was part of an overall strategy to make the Soviet Union the mightiest nation on earth. Stalin needed to feed all of the new factory workers that he had pulled from the countryside. With the human factor, the labor shortage, and Stalin’s inflexible quotas, the peasant farmers starved or were shot dead for saving enough food to feed themselves and their families.
Successful leaders, whether be that of a corporation or a nation, make daily decisions based on new variables for that day. If all we needed was a good strategy, then we would not need leaders at all and the whole world could run itself on a good strategy.
Published by Chief Editor, Sammy Campbell. Written by Mark Pullen