The leap from the specific to the general is enormous here. It's certainly an interesting account of how the Cuban missile crisis became a crisis because of th

The leap from the specific to the general is enormous here. It's certainly an interesting account of how the Cuban missile crisis became a crisis because of the Kennedys' political aspirations, not because of the machinations of the Soviets. However, there is then what seems to be a completely unjustified jump to the criticism of American global military strategy in general and I can't see how that's warranted. EDIT: BTW, there are lots of interesting dissenting opinions in the comments section of the article.