From the beginning, unidentified Administration officials, aided and abetted by pundits and armchair strategists, have proclaimed, "Saddam must go."

There is a cult of toughness in this country nowadays: armchair strategists who think the automatic answer to problems is military strikes.

It was the sort of complicated, theoretically neat and tidy plan that a certain variety of armchair strategist was fond of.

Our armchair strategists say USL must achieve critical mass practically overnight to ward off the threat from Microsoft Corp's NT and ensure a successful public offering in the next year or so.

House Speaker Newt Gingrich, an armchair military strategist, would probably borrow from the art of war and call this method the indirect approach.

That glib fantasy may thrill armchair strategists and animate air power enthusiasts.

I do have one comment to make to any armchair strategist who has never made a drop.

He'd leave the might-have-beens to the historians and armchair strategists.

Since the publication of the lukewarm Tower Commission report there has been a flood of words from armchair strategists who have not worked with, or under, the National Security Council.

But neither can a limited war, certainly not the friction-free air strike dear to so many armchair strategists.