Eliot A. Cohen Quotes

Eliot Asher Cohen is an American political scientist. He was a counselor in the United States Department of State under Condoleezza Rice from 2007 to 2009. Cohen is the Director of the Strategic Studies Program at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University. He is a specialist in the Middle East, Persian Gulf, Iraq, arms control, and NATO. Cohen "is one of the few teachers in the American academy to treat military history as a serious field" according to International Law scholar Ruth Wedgwood.

✵ 3. April 1956
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Eliot A. Cohen Quotes

“Air power is an unusually seductive form of military strength, in part because, like modern courtship, it appears to offer gratification without commitment.”

Source: [Eliot A., Cohen, http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19940101faessay8554/eliot-a-cohen/the-mystique-of-u-s-air-power.html, The Mystique of U.S. Air Power, Foreign Affairs, January/February 1994, 2007-06-07]

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