FRED IKLE

Fighting a war can cost more in blood and money than any other undertaking in which nations engage.

Democracies that have achieved military victory ought to refrain from seeking revenge.

The nation that is the victim of a terrorist war may have no other option, other than giving in to the terrorists demands

The best intentioned efforts to end terrorist wars have failed again and again.

To send a man to Mars we have a generously funded, well-integrated project; but to detect a smuggled nuclear bomb on its way to a U.S. city we allocate a puny fraction of those funds and scatter it among a multitude of disjointed studies that feed congressional pork.

Not only military leaders are sometimes guilty of designing a war as if it were a bridge that only spans half a river, civilian leaders may initiate military campaigns without being troubled by the fact that they have no plan to bring their war to a close.

I don't like the word nuclear exchange, it's like an exchange of wheat and so on. It's a horrible term and I always cross it out when I see it somewhere.

The Soviets are not just looking at Moscow, they have a very extensive program of not only research, development, they have built this radar net around the whole country. One of those radars has become infamous because it's a clear violation of the ABM Treaty. They have an infrastructure and they are well prepared to develop a nationwide defensive system.

I'm not a representative of the military establishment. I came in with the Reagan Administration in 1981 as a presidential appointee.

I think the important point is the turning point in combining offense and defense in a reasonable way.

To send a man to Mars we have a generously funded, well-integrated project; but to detect a smuggled nuclear bomb on its way to a U.S. city we allocate a puny fraction of those funds and scatter it among a multitude of disjointed studies that feed congressional pork.

Democracies that have achieved military victory ought to refrain from seeking revenge.

Not only military leaders are sometimes guilty of designing a war as if it were a bridge that only spans half a river, civilian leaders may initiate military campaigns without being troubled by the fact that they have no plan to bring their war to a close.

Fighting a war can cost more in blood and money than any other undertaking in which nations engage.

The nation that is the victim of a terrorist war may have no other option, other than giving in to the terrorists demands

The best intentioned efforts to end terrorist wars have failed again and again.

History is a cruel tutor because its lessons are often so contradictory.

The Soviets are not just looking at Moscow, they have a very extensive program of not only research, development, they have built this radar net around the whole country. One of those radars has become infamous because it's a clear violation of the ABM Treaty. They have an infrastructure and they are well prepared to develop a nationwide defensive system.

I think the important point is the turning point in combining offense and defense in a reasonable way.

I don't like the word nuclear exchange, it's like an exchange of wheat and so on. It's a horrible term and I always cross it out when I see it somewhere.

I'm not a representative of the military establishment. I came in with the Reagan Administration in 1981 as a presidential appointee.