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The grand strategic level:   Craig Hubley  Look again at
differences "between Athens and Sparta (as Thucydides observed,
the inevitable rivalry between a great land power and a great
sea power)" and ask if it is really different than "the
ideological conflict between democratic capitalism and
totalitarian socialism." Soviet Spartans and American Athenians
(works alliteratively) may not have had all that much choice
about their economic systems. Consider:  Infantry inevitably
require standardized training, simple equipment, high common
standards of responsiveness and conditioning. It is a more or
less totalitarian socialist world, the barracks, in which one
obeys commanders, and in which tasks are similar enough that
anyone can rise to command. Land powers are Spartan by nature.
Soldiers can scatter like cockroaches, live off the