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It has to be well-versed in the actual war and its potential outcomes, as well as the moral and mental faculties that are most crucial to its application. In other words, strategy forms the plan of the war and, to achieve this, it links together the series of acts which are to lead to the final decision; in other words, it makes the plans for the individual campaigns and regulates the combats to be fought in each. Since strategy is the employment of the battle to gain the end of the war, it must, therefore, give an aim to the whole military action, which must be by the object of the war.

At the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today’s CIA, was quickly formed—and, in an effort to fill its ranks with experts, the OSS turned to academia for recruits. Suddenly, literature professors, librarians, and historians were training to perform undercover operations and investigative work—and these surprising spies would go on to profoundly shape both the course of the war and our cultural institutions with their efforts.