Emerging Strategic Factors

摘要

The High Wellborn Count Axel Oxenstierna of Soedermoere, Lord High Rikskansler of Sweden, played an important role in the Thirty Years' War before he died in 1654. When he tasked his son to attend treaty negotiations and the son ventured that he knew little of such matters, the Count replied: "Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?"