Reading Lenin or Mao or Stalin, one is struck by the emphasis on the relationship between political, military, psychological, and economic factors … and on the need for dominating a situation by flexible tactics and inflexible purpose.

Henry Kissinger (b. 1923) German-American diplomat
“Reflections on American Diplomacy” (5), Foreign Affairs (Oct 1956)

 
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