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The enemy within

An evil enemy, will burn his own nation to the ground … to rule over the ashes.

Author Greg RavenPosted on October 27, 2022Categories demagoguesTags Sun Tzu

Prolonged warfare

In all history, there is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the disastrous effects of a long war can realize the supreme importance of rapidity in bringing it to a close.

Author Greg RavenPosted on July 25, 2011November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories warTags Sun Tzu

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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