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Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.

— Sterling Hayden

The whole idea of deterrence is to convince your enemy that you are willing and able to make it so painful for them to…

— Martha McSally

“The ultimate determinant in war is the man on the scene with the gun. This man is the final power in war. He is…

— J.C. Wylie

Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about…

— C. Robert Kehler

“Arbitrary government operating by force, by terror, must destroy the best, the boldest dissenters in sheer self-defence; soon it finds itself destroying all who,…

— Edward Crankshaw

“One has to bear in mind that one of the tactics of revolution is to destroy one's predecessors in authority at any cost or…

— Herbert Hoover

“We always see ourselves as constant, and others as less so, no matter what policy shifts we ourselves may have been guilty of.”

— William T. Vollmann

“Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every…

— James Madison

“The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”

— James Madison

“The great threat we pose to each other is a fruit of our sublime ability to generalize.”

— Joseph A. Smith

“Pride can be friend, ego can be foe...depending on which one we choose, or not, to conquer.”

— T.F. Hodge

“There is satisfaction in defeating an enemy. But one must never allow oneself to become complacent. There are always more enemies to be identified,…

— Timothy Zahn