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.
No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none. - Henry A. Kissinger
No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
- Henry A. Kissinger
How to Achieve The New World Order - Henry A. Kissinger
How to Achieve The New World Order
Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea and have … - Henry A. Kissinger
Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea and have …
It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions. - Henry A. Kissinger
It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
One theory is that we will make war look so attractive that we undermine the deterrent. That's Never Never Land. What we have now would have been eno… - Henry A. Kissinger
One theory is that we will make war look so attractive that we undermine the deterrent. That's Never Never Land. What we have now would have been eno…
Far too often the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it mus… - Henry A. Kissinger
Far too often the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it mus…
What is applicable is to understand that first of all China has undergone a huge revolution in the last years. Anyone who saw China as I did in 1971 … - Henry A. Kissinger
What is applicable is to understand that first of all China has undergone a huge revolution in the last years. Anyone who saw China as I did in 1971 …
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault. - Henry A. Kissinger
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum. - Henry A. Kissinger
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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