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“If they succeed in creating an inclusive structure in virtually any peaceful form, Iraq succeeds. If they fail, the U.S.-led coalition fails almost regardless of its military success and that of the new Iraqi forces, and Iraq will move towards division, paralysis, civil conflict and/or a new strongman.”

Ifs Moving Form Force Failing Military Civilization Succeed Conflict Creating Structure Iraq Peaceful Division Coalitions Paralysis

Author:Anthony H. Cordesman

“With the increasingly important role of intelligent machines in all phases of our lives--military, medical, economic and financial, political--it is odd to keep reading articles with titles such as Whatever Happened to Artificial Intelligence? This is a phenomenon that Turing had predicted: that machine intelligence would become so pervasive, so comfortable, and so well integrated into our information-based economy that people would fail even to notice it.”

Source: The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

“I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.”

Ifs Men War Failing Military Obedience Civil War Grants Bad Ass

Author:Ulysses S. Grant

“According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his strength and increases his courage which had already been crushed and failing, and because there is no better remedy for the health of beaten and overwhelmed men than the absence of all hope.”

Men Should Art War States Enemy Failing Military Despair Increase Absence Remedy Beaten Overwhelmed Crushed

Author:Francois Rabelais

“If democracy succeeds in Egypt, other countries will follow. Should the democratic experiment in Egypt be hijacked by the military or anti-democratic Islamist groups, the revolution will fail elsewhere.”

Ifs Should Country Democracy Failing Groups Military Revolution Succeed Spring Democratic Experiments Elsewhere Other Countries Egypt Islamists Arab Spring

Author:David Ignatius

“My men have sometimes failed to take a position, but to defend one, never!”

May Failing Military Position Driven Troops

Author:Stonewall Jackson

“Apparently almost anyone can do a better job of educating children than our so-called 'educators' in the public schools. Children who are home-schooled by their parents also score higher on tests than children educated in the public schools. ... Successful education shows what is possible, whether in charter schools, private schools, military schools or home-schooling. The challenge is to provide more escape hatches from failing public schools, not only to help those students who escape, but also to force these institutions to get their act together before losing more students and jobs.”

“We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.”

Trying Failing Military Duty Neglect

Author:Robert Baden-Powell

“I'm pretty confident the why works now. When it first began, somebody said to me: "Will this work in big business?" I said, "I don't know. Let's try." Somebody said will this work in entrepreneurs, relationships or government and military. I said, "I don't know. Let's try." I kept applying the scientific method. I had a theory. I kept applying that theory, looking for opportunities to fail and it kept working.”

Knows Trying Firsts Said Bigs Government Opportunity Failing Military Theory Method Entrepreneur Big Business Scientific Method

Author:Simon Sinek

“[Ayn] Rand accepts that when she supports military conscription, even indirectly. Also, she starts her politics from the premise that the State must have police power. She fails to take into account the inevitability that once you start with police power you're going to have a police State.”

States Accepting Support Failing Military Accounts Police Premises Inevitability Police State Conscription Police Power

Author:Murray Bookchin

“The more we try to fix the security situation, the more we will drive these people, particularly the Pashtun, into implacable opposition. And whether the military solution is more bombing from Predators or from F-16s or more special forces on the ground, you know, attacking villages and inadvertently killing lots of civilians, it doesn't matter. As long as security comes first, the mission will fail because these people are sick and tired of a government that's oppressing them and a foreigner who's killing them.”

People Trying Long Situation Failing Special Security Military Solutions Sick Tired Killing Predator

Author:Pierre Sprey