Ability Quote by Joe Klein

The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high [military] budget.

— Merrill McPeak

While immensely beneficial to Seoul, is this U.S. guarantee to fight Korean War II, 64 years after the first, wise? Russia, China and Japan…

— Pat Buchanan

The American financial and military commitment really only kicks in with Korea. Not that Korea was the real game for the Americans; their real…

— Tony Judt

An American government that really wanted to stick it to the Chinese Communist Party would be reinforcing U.S. alliances in Asia, instead of threatening…

— Tom Malinowski

Now that the Cold War is over with, it's kind of hard to take the Soviet Union seriously. We won, period. We ran them…

— John Mearsheimer

Russia and China have become two great allies. They'd never be divided as they were during the Cold War Days. Russia and China together…

— Andre Vltchek

If the North Korean Communists provoke another war, we must immediately deter it and give them a decisive counterattack at the initial place of…

— Park Chung-hee

America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our…

— Jo Ann Emerson

The Russians and the Chinese have been making enormous investments in the military. We have the smallest Navy since 1916. We have the lowest…

— Mike Pence

The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the…

— Robert D. Kaplan

The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation; and both…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

For us, the idea was not to get involved more than necessary in the fight against the Russians, which was the business of the…

— Osama bin Laden