The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
HENRY KISSINGERThe reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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In short, the end justifies the means.
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History is the memory of States.
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If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military.
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A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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