Informal Institute for National Security Thinkers and Practitioners
Quotes of the Day:
“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.
-Sir Basil H. Liddel-Hart (Strategy, 1954)
"Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical. If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are. Anger may in time change to gladne ss; vexation may be succeeded by content."
-Sun Tzu
1. Trump’s Pledge to Exit Afghanistan Was a Ruse, His Final SecDef Says
2. CIA’s Former Counterterrorism Chief for the Region: Afghanistan, Not An Intelligence Failure — Something Much Worse
3. For Those Who Served In Afghanistan
4. Journalist Joe Galloway, chronicler of Vietnam War, dies
5. Tom Tugendhat on UK and Afghanistan: Anger, grief, rage
6. The Taliban Have Seized U.S. Military Biometrics Devices
7. What in the absolute hell does Palantir know that we don’t?
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