A Quote by David Frum

One might almost say, to adapt von Clausewitz, that modern warfare is PR by other means. And war-winning strategies mean that modern armies most stop treating their communications operations as secondary assignments or (as still too often happens) dumping grounds for officers who have failed at everything else - but as missions absolutely essential to success.

David Frum

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David Frum
American - Public Servant
Born: June 30, 1960

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Craig Fairbrass

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Todd Farmer

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Chiang Kai-shek

For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means for controlling peace. Naval officers must therefore understand not only how to fight a war, but how to use the tremendous power which they operate to sustain a world of liberty and justice, without unleashing the powerful instruments of destruction and chaos that they have at their command.

Arleigh Burke

While von Clausewitz said, 'War is the continuation of policy (politics) by other means,' when considering the welfare of our men and women in uniform, their families, our veterans and survivors, don't let politics drive your decisions.

Joe Heck

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

Alasdair MacIntyre

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James Madison

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Wendell Berry

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Kiki Dee

We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.

Susan Davis

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

Vera Brittain

Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare becoming a mere lower-class brawl.

Terry Pratchett

A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost invisible under a mass of technical details.

Hermann Weyl

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Winston Churchill

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Richard Lamm

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