“The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.” WarStatesLevelsMilitaryHigherRegardStrategyHigher LevelConducting Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“The highest levels of the U.S. military, the Defense Department, and the White House must be held accountable for putting our troops at greater risk and diminishing Americas moral authority across the globe.” HouseWhiteLevelsMoralGreaterRiskMilitaryAuthorityHighestDefenseDepartmentWhite HouseTroopsGlobesOur TroopsMoral Authority Author:Lawrence Korb
“I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time... The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.” IfsThinkingWellsKindMayTodayLastsLevelsMilitaryPeriodsActivityDeclineStandpointInsurgency Author:Dick Cheney
“There is no lack of bravery in the ranks of our armed forces, but bureaucratic cowardice rules in our intelligence establishment (as well as at the higher levels of military command).” WellsForceLevelsMilitaryHigherBraveryCommandEstablishmentCowardiceHigher LevelArmed ForcesMilitary Command Book:Beyond Terror Source: Beyond Terror
“Global military spending levels constitute an unconscionable use of resources and remain at an all-time high, reaching a total of USD 1.75 trillion in 2012, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.” UseLevelsMilitaryResearchResourcesInternationalSpendingAll TimeReachingInstituteInternational PeaceStockholmMilitary Spending Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
“The Iraq War is the largest strategic blunder in U.S. history … On every level - moral, strategic, military and economic - Iraq was a failure. And it was you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, who started this war. It is you who should pay the consequences.” ShouldWarLevelsPayMoralEconomicMilitaryConsequenceIraqStrategicIraq WarBlunders Author:Tomas Young
“Every time we have come to the end of a conflict, somehow we have persuaded ourselves that the nature of mankind and the nature of the world have changed on an enduring basis and so we have dismantle our military and intelligence capabilities. My hope is that as we wind down in Iraq and whatever the level of our commitment in Afghanistan, that we not forget the basic nature of humankind has not changed.” WorldEndsForgetLevelsMankindMilitaryChangedWindConflictCommitmentBasesEndureIraqAfghanistanCapabilityHumankindNature Of Man Author:Robert M. Gates
“If I was trying to destroy this country, what I would do is find a way to drive wedges between all the people, drive the debt to an unsustainable level, and then step off the stage as a world leader and let our enemies increase while we decreased our capacity as a military person. And that's what [Hillary Clinton] doing.” PeopleIfsWorldWayTryingPersonsCountryLevelsLeaderStepsEnemyStageMilitaryCapacityIncreaseClintonDebtWorld LeaderWedges Author:Benjamin Carson
“Authority never matches responsibility. That's one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority. Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That's true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.” KnowsMeanPersonsWarWinningIndividualLevelsResponsibilityCompanyMilitaryBuildingSucceedAuthorityCreatingMythAll TimeManagersFirmHeatGiantsDelusionPerformersSoftwareInitiativeFormalEffectivenessManufacturingSoftware Company Author:Tom Peters
“The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what our political and military leaders were telling us. They were straight forward documentary images. A powerful indictment of the war, of how cruel and unjust it was. When I finally decided what to do with my life, it was to follow in that tradition.” WarPoliticalLevelsPowerfulLeaderMilitaryHappeningsTraditionDecidedContradictionVietnamUnjustDocumentariesIndictmentMilitary Leader Author:James Nachtwey
“Somebody like me - I am a member of the Global Military Advisory Council on Climate Change, we've been at this for several years now. To have somebody like the Prince of Wales talk about something [like climate changes] elevates that conversation to a much higher level.” YearsLevelsMilitaryHigherConversationMembersClimateClimate ChangeLike MeCouncilHigher LevelWalesAdvisory Author:Chris Barrie
“More than ever before, crisis management, reconstruction and development demand a new level of cooperation between nations, and between nations and international organisations, where military and civilian instruments are applied in a coordinated way.” NationsLevelsMilitaryDevelopmentDemandManagementCrisisInstrumentsInternationalCooperationCiviliansOrganisationReconstructionCrisis Management Author:Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
“I see a comparison between the two [Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump]. Peace through strength. What Chris Matthews don't grasp is that day Donald Trump gave a speech in which he said he's going to build the U.S. military up to Ronald Reagan levels.” SaidTwoLevelsMilitaryTrumpSpeechComparisonMatthewPeace Through Strength Author:Rudy Giuliani
“If we build our military up to Ronald Reagan levels, [Vladimir] Putin's not going to push us anywhere because he can't match us.” IfsLevelsMilitaryPutin Author:Rudy Giuliani
“The demands of leadership have changed. The highest levels if leadership require mastery of a new task: job creation. Traditional leadership through politics, military force, religion, or personal values won't work in the future like it has in the past.” IfsJobsPastValuesForceLeadershipLevelsMilitaryCreationChangedDemandHighestTasksTraditionalMasteryMilitary ForceJob CreationPersonal Values Book:The Coming Jobs War Source: The Coming Jobs War
“I've just been flooded with emails of people just giving testimonies of their lives, saying exactly this. I got an email from a guy who works for some sort of defense contractor, some lower-level job, served in the military. And he said, look, I served in the military with black and Latino soldiers. My supervisor is a young black woman who's smart as a whip, and I admire her, and we get along great.” PeopleGivingLooksSaidJobsYoungGuyBlackLevelsMilitarySmartSoldierDefenseAdmireBlack WomenTestimonyEmailLatinoWhipsContractorSupervisors Author:Steve Inskeep
“Generals often find a way of dealing with generals on the officer-to-officer level. In the hierarchy of the military and with the almost similar structure and similar language, they find a way of dealing with each other.” WayLanguageLevelsMilitaryStructureOfficersHierarchy Author:Kofi Annan
“Photographs can be forms of recruitment, ways of bringing the viewer into the military, as it were. In this way, they prepare us for war, even enlist us in war, at the level of the senses, establishing a sensate regime of war.” WayWarFormLevelsMilitaryPhotographSensesRegimesViewersRecruitment Author:Judith Butler
“I would argue that among musicians who work in technology today, the level of technological sophistication probably exceeds that of military programs, to be blunt. They are just really smart people attracted to making strange new sounds.” PeopleTodaySoundLevelsTechnologyMilitaryStrangeMusicianSmartProgramArguingTechnologicalExceedBluntSmart PeopleSophisticationReally Smart Author:Jaron Lanier
“Government at all levels in the USA right now is engaged in a quixotic campaign to sustain the unsustainable. We're determined to run WalMart, Disney World, the Interstate Highways, suburbia, and an imperial military by other means than oil. We'll squander a lot of dwindling resources in the process.” WorldMeanGovernmentRunningProcessLevelsMilitaryRight NowResourcesDeterminedOilCampaignsUsaEngagedHighwaysInterstateWalmartSuburbiaQuixotic Author:James Howard Kunstler