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| Floating Clausewitz head will be drinking with me in spirit tonight. |
Tom Ricks and the gang at the Warlord Loop have challenged the blogosphere for a list of the best national security quotations. Unfortunately, it looks as if most are gleaning quotations from the usual sources: Mao Tse-Tung, Eisenhower, Sun-Tzu, Napoleon, and the like.
I think I can one-up the great captains of history and devise some national security quotations of my own making, which I will post to Twitter as I imbibe alcohol tonight.
Look for the #nsqs (national security quotations) hashtag on Twitter. I'll have the ghosts of Clausewitz and Moltke the Elder in stitches by the nights end. No small feat, too, as I bet those Prussians can really pound some fermented beverages. And even if I don't out-quote Bonaparte, at least you'll be amused, right?
2 comments:
"If we can do full-scale combat operations, we can put down this counter-insurgency. Just a matter of scaling down."
-- Some naive General officer
"When in doubt - knock 'em out" probably best for preventive/pre emption praise
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