When there is no coherent strategy, tactics, no matter how … - Thomas E. Ricks

" "
When there is no coherent strategy, tactics, no matter how flashily executed, become meaningless.

Thomas E. Ricks

This quote has a book source. Sign up to see titles and page references

English

Collect this quote

About Thomas E. Ricks

Thomas Edwin "Tom" Ricks (born September 25, 1955) and is a member of the Center for a New American Security, a defense policy think tank. Ricks lectures widely to the military and is a member of Harvard University's Senior Advisory Council on the Project on U.S. Civil-Military Relations. Ricks is the author of several nonfiction books including Making the Corps (1997); the bestselling Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (2006) and its follow-up, The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006–2008 (2009); the bestselling First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country (2020); and Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 (2022).

Biography information from Wikipedia

Also Known As

Alternative Names: Thomas Ricks • Thomas Edwin Ricks

All quotes from Thomas E. Ricks Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Thomas E. Ricks:

William F. Buckley Jr. Benjamin Disraeli Stanley Baldwin John Adams George Orwell

Additional quotes by Thomas E. Ricks

As Orwell once wrote, “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear” — most especially, for him, facts that they did not want to acknowledge.

One day in the 1950s, one of Churchill’s grandsons poked his head into the old man’s study. Is it true, the child inquired, that you are the greatest man in the world? Churchill, in typical fashion, responded, “Yes, and now bugger off.” The

If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened — that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.

When there is no coherent strategy, tactics, no matter how flashily executed, become meaningless. - Thomas E. Ricks

About Thomas E. Ricks

Also Known As

Go Premium

Additional quotes by Thomas E. Ricks

Enhance Your Quote Experience