Montgomery McFate is a professor at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Yale University and a JD from Harvard Law School. She is the author and/or editor of Considering Anthropology and Small Wars (Routledge 2020); Military Anthropology: Soldiers, Scholars and Subjects at the Margins of Empire (Oxford University Press 2018); Social Science Goes to War (Oxford University Press 2015), among others. Her articles have appeared in such journals as Defense and Security Analysis, Journal of Information Warfare, Journal of Small Wars & Insurgencies, and Joint Forces Quarterly. She was a key contributor to US Army Field Manual 3-24, Counterinsurgency and is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Strategy can be fun as well as serious. Behind the fantastical rhymes of Dr. Seuss are insights into the human condition and what it takes to defend our values. Montgomery McFate and her distinguished team explore these insights, and in doing so, throw new light on some of the big issues of military theory and practice.

• PART I. INTRODUCTIONChapter 1. Learning the Art of War from Dr. Seuss – Montgomery McFateDr. Seuss in Military Art & ScienceLife in UniformHidden in Plain SightLessons from the MasterConclusionPART II. BOUNDING THE SUBJECTChapter 2. I Had Trouble Getting to Solla Sollew and Grand Strategy – Antulio J. Echevarria IITroublesPsychological ResilienceMisadventureIsolationism/Anti-IsolationismMilitary LeadershipFrictionEnd StatesUtility of ForceIn ConclusionChapter 3. Oh, the Places You’ll Go & Grand Strategy in Outer Space – Saadia M. PekkanenGrand StrategyThree UncertaintiesDemocratizationCommercializationMilitarizationBright Places with Boom BandsIn Conclusion: the Great Balancing ActChapter 4. Horton Hears a Who and International Human Rights Law – John HurshThe Making of HortonListeningThe EncounterDo No HarmToleranceDevelopmentTortureCollective ActionConclusionPART III. SPECIALIZED DOMAINS OF WARFAREChapter 5. Thidwick the Big Hearted Moose and Environmental Security – Rebecca Pincus and Montgomery McFateCapacity and CollapseShort Term Interests, Long Term ConsequencesCommon Pool Resource DilemmasSocial Norms and VulnerabilityNasty, Brutish, and ShortMass ExtinctionDeep EcologyIn Conclusion: ‘All Stuffed, as They Should Be’Chapter 6. Cat in the Hat and Cyber Warfare – Jon R. Lindsay and Michael PoznanskyUnwitting CooperationUnintended ConsequencesStaged OperationsLeaving No TraceOffense-Defense BalanceDeviance and AuthorityIn Conclusion: Warnings to PonderChapter 7. Private Snafu and Political Propaganda – Kevin P. EubanksHollywood at WarPropaganda and its DiscontentsPropaganda and DemocracyAnti-AuthoritarianismIndividual FreedomCivil SocietyChapter 8. Yertle the Turtle and Authoritarianism and Resistance – Katherine Blue CarrollStaying in PowerExplaining Mass ProtestLone Dissidents (Explaining Mack)Conclusion: Plea for a Seussian Research AgendaChapter 9. Hunches in Bunches: Intelligence and National Security Decision-Making – Genevieve Lester, John Nagl, and Montgomery McFateThe Wrong HunchThe Happy HunchReal Tough Homework HunchThe Better HunchThe Sour HunchVery Odd HunchThe Unhelpful HunchThe Spookish HunchThe Nowhere HunchUp HunchThe Down HunchWild Hunches in Big BunchesSuper HunchIn Conclusion: Munch HunchPART IV. THEORIES OF WARFAREChapter 10. Horton and the Kwuggerbug and Deception - Chris C. DemchakThe Kwuggerbug and the Deceptive False Flag StateThe Grinch Deceives the Hoobubs … AgainMarco Comes Late and Spins a Tale….Resilience in How Officer Pat Saved the Whole TownConclusion: Deception is a Strategy that PaysChapter 11. Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? and Luck in Warfare – Erich Henry Wagner and Montgomery McFateThe Bunglebung Bridge and the Dangers of War TechnologyZayt Highway Eight and the Dangers of RoadsThe Schlottz and the Wounds of WarHawtch-Hawtcher Bee-Watcher and Military IntelligencePoogle-Horn Players and the Danger of Broken ToolsHarry Haddow’s Shadow: Changing One’s LuckThe Brothers Ba-Zoo: Lucky Comrades in WarThat Forest in France: Luck and the Environment in WarfareThe Seventeenth Radish: Luck and the Randomness of SurvivalIn Conclusion: A Game of CardsChapter 12. The Butter Battle Book and Deterrence and Escalation – Sam J. TangrediControversy and RealityArms RaceTech PaceEscalation and HesitationRational or NationalRenegades and ProvocateursDeterrence and Non-OccurrencePunishment or DenialWar TerminationIn Conclusion: Guns or ButterPART V. CONSEQUENCES OF WARFAREChapter 13. How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Traumatic Stress – Montgomery McFateThe Grinch as AllegoryWartime TraumaDiagnostic CriteriaProgressive Worsening of the DisorderPhysical AlterationsEmotional DysregulationAvoidance of TriggersWithdrawal and IsolationReenactment of TraumaResilience and Healing of the GrinchSocial ConnectednessAcceptanceTrauma and Resilience of Who-VilleIn Conclusion: Redemption in ‘War Stories’BibliographyAbout the Authors

Montgomery McFate is a professor at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Yale University and a JD from Harvard Law School. She is the author and/or editor of Considering Anthropology and Small Wars (Routledge 2020); Military Anthropology: Soldiers, Scholars and Subjects at the Margins of Empire (Oxford University Press 2018); Social Science Goes to War (Oxford University Press 2015), among others. Her articles have appeared in such journals as Defense and Security Analysis, Journal of Information Warfare, Journal of Small Wars & Insurgencies, and Joint Forces Quarterly. She was a key contributor to US Army Field Manual 3-24, Counterinsurgency and is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Strategy can be fun as well as serious. Behind the fantastical rhymes of Dr. Seuss are insights into the human condition and what it takes to defend our values. Montgomery McFate and her distinguished team explore these insights, and in doing so, throw new light on some of the big issues of military theory and practice.

• PART I. INTRODUCTIONChapter 1. Learning the Art of War from Dr. Seuss – Montgomery McFateDr. Seuss in Military Art & ScienceLife in UniformHidden in Plain SightLessons from the MasterConclusionPART II. BOUNDING THE SUBJECTChapter 2. I Had Trouble Getting to Solla Sollew and Grand Strategy – Antulio J. Echevarria IITroublesPsychological ResilienceMisadventureIsolationism/Anti-IsolationismMilitary LeadershipFrictionEnd StatesUtility of ForceIn ConclusionChapter 3. Oh, the Places You’ll Go & Grand Strategy in Outer Space – Saadia M. PekkanenGrand StrategyThree UncertaintiesDemocratizationCommercializationMilitarizationBright Places with Boom BandsIn Conclusion: the Great Balancing ActChapter 4. Horton Hears a Who and International Human Rights Law – John HurshThe Making of HortonListeningThe EncounterDo No HarmToleranceDevelopmentTortureCollective ActionConclusionPART III. SPECIALIZED DOMAINS OF WARFAREChapter 5. Thidwick the Big Hearted Moose and Environmental Security – Rebecca Pincus and Montgomery McFateCapacity and CollapseShort Term Interests, Long Term ConsequencesCommon Pool Resource DilemmasSocial Norms and VulnerabilityNasty, Brutish, and ShortMass ExtinctionDeep EcologyIn Conclusion: ‘All Stuffed, as They Should Be’Chapter 6. Cat in the Hat and Cyber Warfare – Jon R. Lindsay and Michael PoznanskyUnwitting CooperationUnintended ConsequencesStaged OperationsLeaving No TraceOffense-Defense BalanceDeviance and AuthorityIn Conclusion: Warnings to PonderChapter 7. Private Snafu and Political Propaganda – Kevin P. EubanksHollywood at WarPropaganda and its DiscontentsPropaganda and DemocracyAnti-AuthoritarianismIndividual FreedomCivil SocietyChapter 8. Yertle the Turtle and Authoritarianism and Resistance – Katherine Blue CarrollStaying in PowerExplaining Mass ProtestLone Dissidents (Explaining Mack)Conclusion: Plea for a Seussian Research AgendaChapter 9. Hunches in Bunches: Intelligence and National Security Decision-Making – Genevieve Lester, John Nagl, and Montgomery McFateThe Wrong HunchThe Happy HunchReal Tough Homework HunchThe Better HunchThe Sour HunchVery Odd HunchThe Unhelpful HunchThe Spookish HunchThe Nowhere HunchUp HunchThe Down HunchWild Hunches in Big BunchesSuper HunchIn Conclusion: Munch HunchPART IV. THEORIES OF WARFAREChapter 10. Horton and the Kwuggerbug and Deception - Chris C. DemchakThe Kwuggerbug and the Deceptive False Flag StateThe Grinch Deceives the Hoobubs … AgainMarco Comes Late and Spins a Tale….Resilience in How Officer Pat Saved the Whole TownConclusion: Deception is a Strategy that PaysChapter 11. Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? and Luck in Warfare – Erich Henry Wagner and Montgomery McFateThe Bunglebung Bridge and the Dangers of War TechnologyZayt Highway Eight and the Dangers of RoadsThe Schlottz and the Wounds of WarHawtch-Hawtcher Bee-Watcher and Military IntelligencePoogle-Horn Players and the Danger of Broken ToolsHarry Haddow’s Shadow: Changing One’s LuckThe Brothers Ba-Zoo: Lucky Comrades in WarThat Forest in France: Luck and the Environment in WarfareThe Seventeenth Radish: Luck and the Randomness of SurvivalIn Conclusion: A Game of CardsChapter 12. The Butter Battle Book and Deterrence and Escalation – Sam J. TangrediControversy and RealityArms RaceTech PaceEscalation and HesitationRational or NationalRenegades and ProvocateursDeterrence and Non-OccurrencePunishment or DenialWar TerminationIn Conclusion: Guns or ButterPART V. CONSEQUENCES OF WARFAREChapter 13. How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Traumatic Stress – Montgomery McFateThe Grinch as AllegoryWartime TraumaDiagnostic CriteriaProgressive Worsening of the DisorderPhysical AlterationsEmotional DysregulationAvoidance of TriggersWithdrawal and IsolationReenactment of TraumaResilience and Healing of the GrinchSocial ConnectednessAcceptanceTrauma and Resilience of Who-VilleIn Conclusion: Redemption in ‘War Stories’BibliographyAbout the Authors

Montgomery McFate is a professor at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Yale University and a JD from Harvard Law School. She is the author and/or editor of Considering Anthropology and Small Wars (Routledge 2020); Military Anthropology: Soldiers, Scholars and Subjects at the Margins of Empire (Oxford University Press 2018); Social Science Goes to War (Oxford University Press 2015), among others. Her articles have appeared in such journals as Defense and Security Analysis, Journal of Information Warfare, Journal of Small Wars & Insurgencies, and Joint Forces Quarterly. She was a key contributor to US Army Field Manual 3-24, Counterinsurgency and is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Strategy can be fun as well as serious. Behind the fantastical rhymes of Dr. Seuss are insights into the human condition and what it takes to defend our values. Montgomery McFate and her distinguished team explore these insights, and in doing so, throw new light on some of the big issues of military theory and practice.

• PART I. INTRODUCTIONChapter 1. Learning the Art of War from Dr. Seuss – Montgomery McFateDr. Seuss in Military Art & ScienceLife in UniformHidden in Plain SightLessons from the MasterConclusionPART II. BOUNDING THE SUBJECTChapter 2. I Had Trouble Getting to Solla Sollew and Grand Strategy – Antulio J. Echevarria IITroublesPsychological ResilienceMisadventureIsolationism/Anti-IsolationismMilitary LeadershipFrictionEnd StatesUtility of ForceIn ConclusionChapter 3. Oh, the Places You’ll Go & Grand Strategy in Outer Space – Saadia M. PekkanenGrand StrategyThree UncertaintiesDemocratizationCommercializationMilitarizationBright Places with Boom BandsIn Conclusion: the Great Balancing ActChapter 4. Horton Hears a Who and International Human Rights Law – John HurshThe Making of HortonListeningThe EncounterDo No HarmToleranceDevelopmentTortureCollective ActionConclusionPART III. SPECIALIZED DOMAINS OF WARFAREChapter 5. Thidwick the Big Hearted Moose and Environmental Security – Rebecca Pincus and Montgomery McFateCapacity and CollapseShort Term Interests, Long Term ConsequencesCommon Pool Resource DilemmasSocial Norms and VulnerabilityNasty, Brutish, and ShortMass ExtinctionDeep EcologyIn Conclusion: ‘All Stuffed, as They Should Be’Chapter 6. Cat in the Hat and Cyber Warfare – Jon R. Lindsay and Michael PoznanskyUnwitting CooperationUnintended ConsequencesStaged OperationsLeaving No TraceOffense-Defense BalanceDeviance and AuthorityIn Conclusion: Warnings to PonderChapter 7. Private Snafu and Political Propaganda – Kevin P. EubanksHollywood at WarPropaganda and its DiscontentsPropaganda and DemocracyAnti-AuthoritarianismIndividual FreedomCivil SocietyChapter 8. Yertle the Turtle and Authoritarianism and Resistance – Katherine Blue CarrollStaying in PowerExplaining Mass ProtestLone Dissidents (Explaining Mack)Conclusion: Plea for a Seussian Research AgendaChapter 9. Hunches in Bunches: Intelligence and National Security Decision-Making – Genevieve Lester, John Nagl, and Montgomery McFateThe Wrong HunchThe Happy HunchReal Tough Homework HunchThe Better HunchThe Sour HunchVery Odd HunchThe Unhelpful HunchThe Spookish HunchThe Nowhere HunchUp HunchThe Down HunchWild Hunches in Big BunchesSuper HunchIn Conclusion: Munch HunchPART IV. THEORIES OF WARFAREChapter 10. Horton and the Kwuggerbug and Deception - Chris C. DemchakThe Kwuggerbug and the Deceptive False Flag StateThe Grinch Deceives the Hoobubs … AgainMarco Comes Late and Spins a Tale….Resilience in How Officer Pat Saved the Whole TownConclusion: Deception is a Strategy that PaysChapter 11. Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? and Luck in Warfare – Erich Henry Wagner and Montgomery McFateThe Bunglebung Bridge and the Dangers of War TechnologyZayt Highway Eight and the Dangers of RoadsThe Schlottz and the Wounds of WarHawtch-Hawtcher Bee-Watcher and Military IntelligencePoogle-Horn Players and the Danger of Broken ToolsHarry Haddow’s Shadow: Changing One’s LuckThe Brothers Ba-Zoo: Lucky Comrades in WarThat Forest in France: Luck and the Environment in WarfareThe Seventeenth Radish: Luck and the Randomness of SurvivalIn Conclusion: A Game of CardsChapter 12. The Butter Battle Book and Deterrence and Escalation – Sam J. TangrediControversy and RealityArms RaceTech PaceEscalation and HesitationRational or NationalRenegades and ProvocateursDeterrence and Non-OccurrencePunishment or DenialWar TerminationIn Conclusion: Guns or ButterPART V. CONSEQUENCES OF WARFAREChapter 13. How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Traumatic Stress – Montgomery McFateThe Grinch as AllegoryWartime TraumaDiagnostic CriteriaProgressive Worsening of the DisorderPhysical AlterationsEmotional DysregulationAvoidance of TriggersWithdrawal and IsolationReenactment of TraumaResilience and Healing of the GrinchSocial ConnectednessAcceptanceTrauma and Resilience of Who-VilleIn Conclusion: Redemption in ‘War Stories’BibliographyAbout the Authors