Mastering the Multi-Front Challenge: The Diplomatic Strategies of Metternich and Bismarck

December 14, 2021

This paper examines how the 19th Century European statesmen Klemens von Metternich and Otto von Bismarck dealt with the problem of multi-front competition in grand strategy. 


The Marathon Initiative

Dr. A. Wess Mitchell is co-founder and principal at The Marathon Initiative, a policy initiative focused on developing strategies to prepare the United States for an era of sustained great power competition.