Quotes about Protracted War

Alexis de Tocqueville

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

Sun Tzu

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

Paul Bremer

Insurgencies have a way of going on for a long time historically.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.

Aaron David Miller

In 2 wars [Afghanistan and Iraq] victory seemed to be measured not in terms of when the United States would prevail, but by when it would be able to leave.

Peter Bergen

What bin Laden had hoped to achieve in Afghanistan in the post-9/11 period, which was to drag the United States into a protracted guerrilla war like the one he had fought against the Soviets, never happened. Instead, that protracted guerrilla war is now playing out in Iraq, in the heart of the Middle East.

Brandon Webb

I think Afghanistan has turned into the Vietnam of my generation, only with a better homecoming.

Jack Keane

I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.

Andrew J. Bacevich

Wars once begun drag on in perpetuity.

This was not always so. But even in WWII America and its allies were willing to inflict such terrible damage on teh infrastructure and civillians required if the last vestiges of the military are to be destryoed or rendered incapabley of ressurecting themselves. Since then we have not been willint to pay that price, nor the price of losing lives of our own military. As a result, fanatics who can recruit additional fanatics who are willing to die for a cause con continue the firght almost perpetually.

Dan Quayle

Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.

Protracted War Quotes