Mark Esper Quotes
The surest way to deter adversary aggression is to fully prepare for war.
United States, Congress, Senate, Committee on Armed Services. Hearing to Consider the Nomination of Honorable Mark T. Esper to be Secretary of Defense. Government Publishing Office, 16 July 2019.
Clark had commanded the American and NATO forces in the Serbian War where all the military and political objectives were accomplished with heavy losses to the Serbian’s and none to the allied side—what many think was the most successful war in American History. Like Eisenhower in WWII one great challenge was the political and strategic one of keeping the coalition of all the allied governments working together. His perspective had been like Eisenhower’s which was much wider and geopolitical than most military officers.
The War Plan that the Germans had developed--{642092}—had gone awry at the battle of the Marne in late 1914.
Hobson, like Mark Twain in America, was a major critic of imperialism.
Mark Thomas Esper is an American politician, business executive and defense strategist who served as the 27th United States Secretary of Defense from July 2019 to November 2020. A member of the Republican Party, he previously was the 23rd U.S. Secretary of the Army from November 2017 to July 2019.
