Quotes About Conflict

The Art of War did not provide a single route to victory and recognized that while battles were best avoided they sometimes had to be fought.

Premio Nobel de Economía de 2005, «por haber ampliado nuestros conocimientos sobre el conflicto y la cooperación a través de la gamificación analítica».

By and large, strategy comes into play where there is actual or potential conflict, when interests collide and forms of resolution are required. This is why a strategy is much more than a plan. A plan supposes a sequence of events that allows one to move with confidence from one state of affairs to another. Strategy is required when one might frustrate those plans.

Con el habitual destrozo cataclísmico con que se derrumba el pasado, se abrió paso la idea de que las nuevas guerras iban a encontrarse siempre en países pobres y sus alrededores. Cada vez más temas internacionales tenían como protagonistas a estos países con guerras internas.

hay tres aspectos elementales en la estrategia humana y que son comunes a lo largo del tiempo y el espacio. Esos tres aspectos son el engaño, las alianzas y el uso instrumental de la violencia.

La destrucción de las fuerzas armadas del enemigo era un medio para conseguir un fin,

el arte de la dialéctica de dos voluntades opuestas que utilizan la fuerza para resolver su disputa».[1]

Emplear ejércitos para ataques ocasionales, asaltos contra los recursos económicos del enemigo, para amenazar o desmoralizar a la población enemiga puede resultar una forma alternativa de coacción frente a la batalla abierta.

las políticas racionales podían imponerse a la guerra, pero siempre estaban compitiendo con las ciegas fuerzas naturales de la «violencia, el odio y la enemistad»,

Clausewitz aceptaba que los objetivos militares deberían ser fijados por los políticos.

We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life. —J. Robert Oppenheimer

La perfección de la estrategia sería, por tanto, generar una solución al conflicto sin una verdadera lucha».

acabó sepultado en Waterloo en 1815.

La maniobra que trae a un aliado al campo de batalla es tan útil como la que permite ganar una gran batalla. La maniobra que consigue obtener un importante punto estratégico puede ser menos valiosa que aquella que apacigua o desactiva a un tercero peligroso y aparentemente neutral. Winston Churchill, La crisis mundial

John Stuart Mill in 1848: "It is commerce which is rapidly rendering war obsolete, by strengthening and multiplying the personal interests which act in natural opposition to it.

RAND Corporation,

By and large, strategy comes into play where there is actual or potential conflict, when interests collide and forms of resolution are required. This is why a strategy is much more than a plan. A plan supposes a sequence of events that allows one to move with confidence from one state of affairs to another. Strategy is required when others might frustrate one's plans because they have different and possibly opposing interests and concerns.

Heeding Warnings about Violent Conflict? Persuasion in Foreign Policy.

Wilbur and Orville were rapacious misanthropes who were all too happy to stop progress in its tracks by stifling brilliant innovators, particularly Curtiss, all to stuff their pockets with more money than they could spend in ten lifetimes.

Fear of black rebellion among planters was deep and long-standing. 7 It began in the first years that African slaves were brought ashore, but in 1739, an incident of unprecedented ferocity caught every slaveowner in its grip.

There is simply no proof that warfare in small-scale societies was a rarer or less serious undertaking than among civilized societies. In general, warfare in prestate societies was both frequent and important. If anything, peace was a scarcer commodity for members of bands, tribes, and chiefdoms than for the average citizen of a civilized state.

If the sky was so perfect, why was the earth all wrong

We should draft dogs," he said. "People would say, 'But I love my dog; I wouldn't send him to Vietnam. He might get killed.

People are torn between the pathetic safety of not knowing, and the desire to know.