Quotes from Gideon Rose

In short, the post–Cold War order is unraveling, and while not perfect, it will be missed.

strategy can never be divorced from the costs of implementing it.

In short, a successful military policy is possible when, and only when, it is one of at least three strands of the policies of the allied countries. The other two are the political and the economic.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, regularly insisted that the National Security Council specify as "the basic objective of our national security policies: maintaining the security of the United States and the vitality of its fundamental values and institutions." To achieve the former without securing the latter, he warned, would be to "destroy what we are attempting to defend.