Diplomacy Quote by Thomas C. Schelling Download Open image ““Military strategy...has become the diplomacy of violence.”” — Thomas C. Schelling ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diplomacy History Military history Military strategy Peacebuilding Politics Strategy War
“Politics must drive military strategy as strategy drives tactics. Only when politics fail do we fight.” — B.V. Larson Copy Share Image
“When our objectives become purely military, we’ve already lost the larger fight.” — Alexander Freed Copy Share Image
“Strategy is about fighting the right battles, the important ones you are likely to win. Operations are about winning them.” — Stephen Bungay Copy Share Image
“Warfare is now an interlocking system of actions—political, economic, psychological, military—that aims at the overthrow of the established authority in a country and its… — Roger Trinquier Copy Share Image
“A war without a strategy cannot be won. Then it is merely a battle where more lives are lost than necessary.” — Jennifer Megan Varnadore Copy Share Image
“I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
“A military leader thinks about casualties and losses, but a strategic one only aims the win.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“...much of modern military tactics is geared toward maneuvering the enemy into a position where they can essentially be massacred from safety.” — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
“The nature of strategy consists of always having, even with a weaker army, more forces at the point of attack or at the point… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“And there is escaping things the knowledge of which makes one unhappy. If "truth" is what we know and are aware of, in the… — Thomas C. Schelling Copy Share Image
For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically. — Kelly Ayotte Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, entertainment is part of our American diplomacy, it is part of what makes us exceptional, part of what makes us… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran… — Cynthia P. Schneider Copy Share Image
War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another. — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
There comes a point where you see no evidence that the carrot and diplomacy are working. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Russia may very well be front and center again in 2020 as they were in 2016 regarding interference in America's presidential election. But the… — Richard Painter Copy Share Image
Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Expecting accountability from the UN system was akin to expecting a blind dog to catch a flying Frisbee.” — Michael Soussan Copy Share Image
Kolkata is a musical city. What I like about people here is the lack of diplomacy. Some of the best Indian classical musicians belong… — Sukhwinder Singh Copy Share Image
Obama is hardly the first president to seek rapprochement with our adversaries and reconciliation with our enemies, of course. But his determination to make… — Stephen F. Hayes Copy Share Image