PhotoJournal: World Baseball Classic

San Diego

The Japanese, Koreans and Cubans seem to be playing chess while the celebrity-laden, ball-bashing Americans, Dominicans and others are playing checkers. We Americans love the "shock and awe" of explosive home-run hitting, but let's acknowledge that pure brawn can and does lose to smart, speedy, strategic and fundamentally sound execution.

Go ahead; you make the warfighting comparisons.