“Viewed abstractly, systems analysis implies rigorous thinking, hopefully quantitative, regarding the gains and the resource-expenditures involved in a particular course of action… — James R. Schlesinger Copy Share Image
“In foreign policy, a modest acceptance of fate will often lead to discipline rather than indifference. The realization that we cannot always… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Most blitz leaders have felt that by sacrificing a degree of intelligence or logistics support they gained a greater advantage in the… — Wesley W. Yale Copy Share Image
“The actual legacy of Desert Storm was to plunge the United States more deeply into a sea of difficulties for which military… — Bacevich Copy Share Image
“It is important to remember that bureaucratic politics and rivalry are not just matters of competing for primacy in foreign policy -… — Howard J. Wiarda Copy Share Image
“Nuclear deterrence will remain a vital aspect of security. or Nuclear deterrence will have a smaller role in future security. Sources are… — Sam J. Tangredi Copy Share Image
“In the past, the states best able to manage events beyond their borders have been those best able to avoid the temptation… — Robert Scales Copy Share Image
“It was over a century and a half ago that Clausewitz made his now famous remarks on the relationship of war to… — Barry Posen Copy Share Image
“It is the political change in international relations as well as a change in superpower fortunes which indicate that the days of… — Richard Connaughton Copy Share Image
“In the absence of expert [senior military] advice, we have seen each successive administration fail in the business of strategy - yielding… — Edward Luttwak Copy Share Image
“One government policy that libertarians accept is provisions of national defense, since no private solution is likely to prove satisfactory. A private… — Jeffrey Miron Copy Share Image
“During the nineteenth century, corps commander was the highest level of command to still require skills of an operator for success. A… — Robert Scales Copy Share Image
“Daily, the media report human activity in which force is used to settle disputes. Since 1945 not a single day has gone… — Eugene R. Wittkopf Copy Share Image
“The history of warfare has always been a struggle between measures and countermeasures, and so it will be with asymmetric warfare. During… — Ashton Carter Copy Share Image
“In this world, anything is possible. The United States might win a future war relying solely on air power for the first… — Frederick Kagan Copy Share Image
“Military force is another element of power. It provides a nation the capability to impose it's will on another nation through the… — John M. House Copy Share Image
“CYBERPOWER is now a fundamental fact of global life. In political, economic, and military affairs, information and information technology provide and support… — Franklin D. Kramer Copy Share Image
“Peacekeeping is a soldier-intensive business in which the quality of troops matters as much as the quantity. It is not just soldiering… — Larry Wentz Copy Share Image
“The organizational consequence of this highly quantitative image of defense decision-making is an independent and high-level office of systems analysis (or program… — Walter Slocombe Copy Share Image
“Technological innovations that produced certain major components of the United States military cannot be understood as resulting from a qualitative arms race.… — Stephen Peter Rosen Copy Share Image
“...decision makers should realize that even with rational models and established parameters, situations will arise that may compel the United States to… — Antonia Handler Chayes Copy Share Image
“The term terrorism is widely misused. It is utilized in its generic sense as a form of shorthand by governments and the… — Neil Livingstone Copy Share Image
“This discussion of war then lays the foundation for an understanding of change as a process and as an essential component of… — John M. House Copy Share Image
“It is important not to latch onto some strategic fad to justify radical cuts in the U.S. Army or Marine Corps. For… — Michael O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
“Military analysis is not an exact science. To return to the wisdom of Sun Tzu, and paraphrase the great Chinese political philosopher,… — Michael O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
“Managerial abilities, bureaucratic skills, technical expertise, and political talent are all necessary, but they can be applied only to goals that have… — Edward Luttwak Copy Share Image
“The strategic level is concerned with the use of military force to achieve national objectives. In the new American style of war,… — Robert Scales Copy Share Image
“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants," wrote Edmund Burke in his Reflections on the Revolution in… — Deborah Stone Copy Share Image
“The history of sea power is largely, though by no means solely, a narrative of contests between nations, of mutual rivalries, of… — Alfred Thayer Mahan Copy Share Image
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