Enemy Perspective Quotes

When you make a war movie, the other side has to be the enemy. You're making a war movie from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.

Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy's place. If one cannot do this, it is impossible to foresee, to take by surprise, to outflank. Misinterpreting an enemy can lead to defeat. This is how empires fall.

The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.

It's always interesting to step into the enemy's shoes, and figure out what they're like.

To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy

It's important to listen to the words of the enemy if you're in war.

Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.

For me going to war offers me the ability to write about apparently very alien, sometimes hated or despised people, who've been objectified in a way that restores their humanity. Hopefully for my readers, that denies them the ability to objectify them. I think that's the point. If you can do that, that's a good thing.

I read, every day, the 'Wall Street Journal''s editorials because I like to think how my smart enemy thinks.