Commentary The four great triumphs of international grand strategy in the last century were all conceived and executed by American statesmen. First, starting in 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt devised the strategy whereby the United States gave all aid short of war to Britain and Canada, the democracies fighting Nazism, and implicitly convinced Adolf Hitler that eventually he would find himself at war with America. Roosevelt extended Atlantic territorial waters from 3 miles to 1800 miles and ordered the U.S. Navy to attack the German ships on detection. At the same time, he sold the British and Canadians anything they wished and they could pay for it when they could. This was an idiosyncratic definition of neutrality, and it provoked Hitler to attack The Soviet Union because he believed that only by that method would he be able to repel an Anglo-American attack on Western Europe without being stabbed in the …