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• It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet…
• Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete…
• Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as…
• Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life…
• Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography,…
• Strategy is something that emerges from reality, while tactics might be chosen.
• A century is about events. A decade is about people.
• Europeans have always thought of U.S. presidents as either naive, as they did with Jimmy Carter, or as cowboys, as they did…
• The great presidents never forget the principle of the republic and seek to preserve and enhance them – in the long run–…
• Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distance and coolness are most required. I…
• Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term…

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