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Article: Planning for conflict termination and post-conflict success.
- Article from:
- Parameters
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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"No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it."
--Carl von Clausewitz (1)
"If you concentrate exclusively on victory, with no thought for the after effect, you may be too exhausted to profit by the peace, while it is almost certain that the peace will be a bad one, containing the germs of another war."
--B. H. Liddell Hart (2)
It is always easier to get into a conflict than to get out of one. In 1956, for example, British Prime Minister Anthony Eden with French Premier Guy Mollet planned to unseat ...