GameTalk - The Strategic Corporal

There have been plenty of cases of minute tactical events having profound strategic implications. A recent example would be the 'shooting of the Koran' by 2 US soldiers in Iraq, and the subsequent mass nationwide protests.

If you've got a tactical game, how do you pick out moments that might get magnified into larger strategic issues?
If you're working at the strategic level, how do you capture these fine-detail points that inevitably become larger issues?

By: Brant