me ripples across the pond with his judgment [3] on the U.S. president's foreign policy. "Obama has no sense of what he wants to do in the world," Strachan said. Coming from a world-class military historian, it was a stunning EFTA_R1_02211210 EFTA02724383 rebuke. Strachan gives Mr. Obama's Middle E

ction of War, which evaluates how modern political leaders utilize strategy. Portraying Obama as the Inspector Clouseau of foreign policy may pump Strachan's book sales. (After all, it worked for Gates.) But his assessment seems a bit off the mark. Since the start of his second term, Mr. Obama has exhi