摘要:READERS will find Barbara Tuchman's The March of Folly an articulate, useful, and immensely entertaining argument for longrange planning, t It is a synthesis that explores the unhappy proclivity of governments to march blindly into folly (which Tuchman defines as acting contrary to one’s best interests when there are feasible alternatives available) because, unfortunately, governments tend to work day-to-day with no long view’ in mind. Without knowing w here one is going, one can take any road to get there.