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Quotes from Problems of Estimating Military Power — Andrew W. Marshall

born 1921 United States

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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)

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