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Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.

Henry Kissinger

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
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Moral Right Risk Survive
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
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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Genius Security
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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Blessing Destiny Eyes God Leadership People Play
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Force Language Understand
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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Strategy Writing
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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Decision Seek Victory
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War

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