Wisdom comes by suffering slowly, drop by drop. –Aeschylus27
As soon as they tell me it’s limited, it means they do not care whether you achieve a result or not. As soon as they tell me it’s ‘surgical,’ I head for the bunker. -Colin Powell15
What’s the point of having this superb military you’re always talking about if we can’t use it?
-Madeleine Albright.16
The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish…the kind of war on which they are embarking; neither mistaking it for, nor trying to turn it into, something that is alien to its nature. -Clausewitz19
I never believed the Third Army was a center of gravity. Body bags coming home from Kosovo didn’t bother Milosevic or the rest of the Serb leadership elite. Only when we turned out the lights in Belgrade did we get their attention. - Michael Short25
The Clash Between Principle and Practice The political object, as the original motive of the war, should be the standard for determining both the aim
of the military force and also the amount of effort to be made. - Clausewitz8
8 Howard, Michael and Paret, Peter, eds, Carl von Clausewitz: On War, p.81, Princeton University Press, New
Jersey, 1976.
It was a splendid little war, begun with the highest motives, carried on with magnificent intelligence, and favored by that fortune which loves the brave.
Secretary of State John Hay on the Spanish-American War of 18981
source:
https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a432768.pdf
NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY
NATIONAL WAR COLLEGE
Kosovo: Redefining Victory in an Era of Limited War
Nancy McEldowney/Class of 2000
Core Course 5602
Seminar I
Faculty Seminar Leader: Colonel John Nelsen
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dave Tretler
As soon as they tell me it’s limited, it means they do not care whether you achieve a result or not. As soon as they tell me it’s ‘surgical,’ I head for the bunker. -Colin Powell15
What’s the point of having this superb military you’re always talking about if we can’t use it?
-Madeleine Albright.16
The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish…the kind of war on which they are embarking; neither mistaking it for, nor trying to turn it into, something that is alien to its nature. -Clausewitz19
I never believed the Third Army was a center of gravity. Body bags coming home from Kosovo didn’t bother Milosevic or the rest of the Serb leadership elite. Only when we turned out the lights in Belgrade did we get their attention. - Michael Short25
The Clash Between Principle and Practice The political object, as the original motive of the war, should be the standard for determining both the aim
of the military force and also the amount of effort to be made. - Clausewitz8
8 Howard, Michael and Paret, Peter, eds, Carl von Clausewitz: On War, p.81, Princeton University Press, New
Jersey, 1976.
It was a splendid little war, begun with the highest motives, carried on with magnificent intelligence, and favored by that fortune which loves the brave.
Secretary of State John Hay on the Spanish-American War of 18981
source:
https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a432768.pdf
NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY
NATIONAL WAR COLLEGE
Kosovo: Redefining Victory in an Era of Limited War
Nancy McEldowney/Class of 2000
Core Course 5602
Seminar I
Faculty Seminar Leader: Colonel John Nelsen
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dave Tretler
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