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War Quotes by Robert M. Gates
- Future U.S. political leaders, those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me, may not consider the return…
- And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades.
- I will always be an advocate in terms of wars of necessity. I am just much more cautious on wars of choice.
- I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially…
- If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get…
- Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a wrong premise, that there…
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