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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The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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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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If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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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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Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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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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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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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.
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Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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