Monday, November 22, 2004

From "Will Iran Be Next?" in the December 2004 issue of the Atlantic Monthly:

Companies deciding which kind of toothpaste to market have much more rigorous, established decision-making processes to refer to than the most senior officials of the US government deciding whether or not to go to war.
Michael Mazarr, professor of national-security strategy at the National War College.
There will be no such thing as a quick, clean war. War will always take you in directions different from what you intended. The only guy in recent history who started a war and got what he intended was Bismarck.
Colonel Thomas Hammes, Senior Military Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies.

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