Quotes About Strategy

If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'

The attackers had used one of the oldest and most potent weapons of warfare: surprise.

As students of military history, Rone and Oz could rattle off examples through the ages of attacks at first light.

CIA case officers, or COs,

I kept up the bluff, hoping that I might eventually hit upon some workable plan to pay all of my creditors in full.

planners hauled out their

If you've got to go into combat, don't go by glider. Walk, crawl, parachute, swim, float—anything. But don't go by glider!

Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future.

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

I consoled myself with the knowledge that if I were any good at pool I'd run the table quickly and not be able to play as long. As with so many things, there was utility in avoiding excellence.

Heads, I win; tails, I don't lose much.

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

To put it simply, power no longer buys as much as it did in the past. In the twenty-first century, power is easier to get, harder to use—and easier to lose.

unas elecciones perdidas siempre pueden volver a ganarse, pero un cambio de reglas significa una situación completamente nueva.

Fidel, como las naciones, no tiene amigos, sólo tiene intereses.

La esencia de la política es el poder; la esencia del poder es la política.

El poderío militar ya no equivale a seguridad nacional

To put it simply, power no longer buys as much as it did in the past. In the twenty-first century, power is easier to get, harder to use—and easier to lose. From boardrooms and combat zones to cyberspace, battles for power are as intense as ever, but they are yielding diminishing returns.

a veces pareciera que no gobierna sino que está en una campaña electoral permanente.

Blurring the lines between politics and entertainment isn't something these leaders do on a lark. They do it because it allows them to get away with behaviors that their more traditional rivals couldn't have dreamed of getting away with in the old world where the political and entertainment spheres were clearly separated.

There are more Grandmasters now than ever before: 1,200-plus today versus 88 in 1972. And

According to a remarkable Harvard study, in the asymmetric wars that broke out between 1800 and 1849, the weaker side (in terms of soldiers and weapons) achieved its strategic goals in 12 percent of cases. But in the wars that erupted between 1950 and 1998, the weak side prevailed more often: 55 percent of the time.

las grandes empresas se ven obligadas, por las fuerzas del mercado y las acciones de otros rivales más pequeños, a ser empresas de nicho,