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War Strategy Quotes

Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy. Russell Baker
Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability. Ellen Tauscher
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness — and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling — their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their... Arundhati Roy
Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb... he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory. Douglas MacArthur
The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the end is not given to us at the beginning. Leon Wieseltier
Ronald Reagan quote: "Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose."
Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose. Ronald Reagan
Sun Tzu quote: "Supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy’s strategy."
Supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy’s strategy. Sun Tzu
The central issue in that pre-mortal council was: Shall the children of God have untrammeled agency to choose the course they should follow, whether good or evil, or shall they be coerced and forced to be obedient? Christ and all who followed Him stood for the former proposition—freedom of choice; Satan stood for the latter—coercion and force. The war that began in heaven over this issue is not yet over. The conflict continues on the battlefield of mortality. And one of Lucifer’s primary... Ezra Taft Benson
The conclusion that many uniformed military came away from Vietnam with was that political interference, dominance of strategy and even tactics were a very bad way to conduct a war, and that indeed, if that was going to be our practice, that we shouldn't wage conflict again. Robert McFarlane
Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one. John W. Vessey, Jr.
Sun Tzu quote: "Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the..."
Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy. Sun Tzu
Rich Lowry quote: "Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader..."
Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith. Rich Lowry
But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism. Brent Scowcroft

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