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When returns to violence are high and rising, magnitude means more than efficiency. Larger entities tend to prevail over smaller ones.
James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
Lawrence Freedman
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with courage and strategic brilliance.
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
There is a school of strategy—it forms the ultimate foundation for this book—which teaches that the best strategy wins without ever engaging in battle at all.
Chet Richards • Certain to Win
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. —GEORGE ORWELL, 1984
H. R. McMaster • Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World
GOVERNMENTS: SURVIVE, REFORM, REGULATE
Mustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
The submissive obedience of Haig’s subordinates, which Forester took for blinkered ignorance and whole-hearted support, was in reality the unavoidable consequence of the way in which the army high command functioned as an organization under its commander in chief. A personalized promotion system, built on the bedrock of favoritism and personal riva
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But “anti-Fascism” or “anti-Communism” is not enough. Nor is even the defense of freedom. What has been gained may not be maintained, against invasion without and erosion within, if we are content to stand still. The peoples who are partially free as a result of what their forebears achieved in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries
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