Gideon Rose > Quotes

“Indeed, the trend, in recent years, has been in just the other direction, toward the more frequent and more flagrant intrusion of politics into national security issues, and toward longer and longer periods of time required to repair the damage. No other great nation in the history of the world has fallen into the curious habit of re-thinking its foreign policy at quadrennial intervals to meet the anticipated desires of a particular small and snowy northern province, or one chiefly noted for the production of corn and pigs.”
― Gideon Rose, A New Cold War?: Russia and America, Then and Now

“In short, the post–Cold War order is unraveling, and while not perfect, it will be missed.”
― Gideon Rose, The Best of 2014

“Dwight D. Eisenhower, regularly insisted that the National Security Council specify as “the basic objective of our national security policies: maintaining the security of the United States and the vitality of its fundamental values and institutions.” To achieve the former without securing the latter, he warned, would be to “destroy what we are attempting to defend.”
― Gideon Rose, A New Cold War?: Russia and America, Then and Now

“In short, a successful military policy is possible when, and only when, it is one of at least three strands of the policies of the allied countries. The other two are the political and the economic.”
― Gideon Rose, A New Cold War?: Russia and America, Then and Now

“strategy can never be divorced from the costs of implementing it.”
― Gideon Rose, A New Cold War?: Russia and America, Then and Now