“What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations.”
Sun Tzu (-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty
Source: The Art of War, Chapter II · Waging War
“To comprehend the hysterical mass contagion that is the war on Trump it's essential to trace the contours of that other war, 'Operation Iraqi Freedom,' and the way it was peddled to the American public.”
" Beware The Atavistic Dynamics Undergirding Two American Wars, https://misesuk.org/2017/06/21/beware-the-atavistic-dynamics-undergirding-two-american-wars/" The Ludwig von Mises Centre For Property and Freedom, June 21, 2017. <br class="br">2010s, 2017
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Rudolph Rummel (1932–2014) American academic
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“Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.”
Sun Tzu (-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty
Source: The Art of War, Chapter XIII · Intelligence and Espionage
Ilana Mercer South African writer
“Ilana Mercer on multiculturalism, political correctness, and more,” http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/conscience-realist/2013/jan/28/ilana-mercer-multiculturalism-political-correctnes The Washington Times (interview), January 28, 2013. <br class="br">2010s, 2013
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
Ultimatum to Iraq (17 March 2003) http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/mar/18/iraq.usa1 <br class="br">2000s, 2003
“War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
"War Is God's Way of Teaching Us Geography" https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/05/19/geography/ at Quote Investigator <br class="br">"The comment 'War is God's way of teaching Americans geography,' is continually attributed to Ambrose Bierce. Biographer David E. Schultz, who has nearly all of Bierce's writing entered on his computer, cannot find this acerbic remark within that database." Ralph Keyes, The Quote Verifier (2007), p. 240 <br class="br">Misattributed
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Gémìng zhànzhēng shì qúnzhòng de zhànzhēng, zhǐyǒu dòngyuán qúnzhòng cáinéng jìnxíng zhànzhēng, zhǐyǒu yīkào qúnzhòng cáinéng jìnxíng zhànzhēng. <br class="br"> Chapter 8 https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch08.htm, originally published in Be Concerned with the Well-Being of the Masses, Pay Attention to Methods of Work (January 27, 1934), Selected Works, Vol. I. p. 147. <br class="br">Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)
