title: Geometry Of Power: The Strategic Control of Decision Spaces
abstract: Strategy reduces to one geometry: the number of moves you can make versus the number your adversary can make. Like chess, power flows from preserving your options while eliminating theirs. Decision-space compression explains how Japan surrendered with armies intact (supply lines cut), how Eisenhower ended the Suez intervention without firing a shot (financial pressure), and how nuclear monopoly created global checkmate (1945-1949). Four levers drive compression: Map enemy branches, Shape by cutt