Henry A. Kissinger Quotes About Fighting
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The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
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Well, he keeps saying that, and as defense secretary, of course he has to think of a lot of potential enemies. I do not think it's a wise course to articulate this or to base our policy on it. And I do not see under modern circumstances what we would be fighting about.
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I don't think we should pay people to fight terrorism. I would be amazed if they asked for anything in return.
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To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.
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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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