“We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. The North Vietnamese used their armed forces the way a bull-fighter uses his cape — to keep us lunging in areas of marginal political importance.”
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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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“Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.”
― Diplomacy
― Diplomacy
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