Books: On Grand Strategy

I recently read On Grand Strategy, a history book written by Yale professor John Lewis Gaddis.  The book is a meditation on the balance between working toward a single central goal and pursuing numerous unconnected small goals, between being a "hedgehog" and a "fox," in the words of the ancient Greek poet Archilochus. Gaddis looks at strategic thinking from antiquity to WWII, illustrating interesting parallels between far-flung conflicts like the Peloponnesian War and Vietnam.

On the downside, the prose rambles on a bit - it's very much like reading the transcript of a lecture rather than a traditional work of history.  I also thought there were some notable blind spots in the analysis (Gaddis largely glosses over the bloody grand strategic blunders of Lincoln and FDR, for instance). As a whole, though, the book was a pretty good read.