Andrew W. Marshall Quotes
born 1921 United States
Andrew W. Marshall (born 13 September 1921) is the director of the United States Department of Defense's Office of Net Assessment.
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Any notion that you know what's going to happen, I think is, not going to work.
While the group of real strategists at RAND probably never numbered more than about 25 people, the overall quality, in sheer intelligence and intellectual breadth, is simply astonishing.
Merely adding up all U.S. forces and comparing them with Soviet Forces, actual or potential, present or future, does not really tell one very much.
Problems of Estimating Military Power (1966)
On reflection, it is not even clear if military power is a transitive relationship. Until we have defined more explicitly how we are going to measure military power, it is not clear that if A is more powerful than B, and B more powerful than C, that A is more powerful than C.
Problems of Estimating Military Power (1966)