Strategic Importance Quotes

I find most meetings are a waste of time, because they are so ill-prepared and there's little opportunity for true synergy in producing better solutions than what anyone originally thought of. So I work hard to only attend those meetings that have strategic importance and miss all kinds of other seemingly urgent meetings.

It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is

You are advised that it has been determined necessary for the interest of the United States in the prosecution of the war that the property of Los Alamos Ranch School by acquired for military purposes.

It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.

I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier.

America needs Pakistan more than Pakistan needs America…. Pakistan is the pivot of the world, the frontier upon which the future of the world revolves

Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.

Opportunity in war is usually of greater value than bravery... Terrain is often of more value than bravery... Bravery is of more value than numbers.

NATO's got a vital role to play. It's very important that we protect NATO.

The maintenance of naval supremacy is our foundation not only of the empire but of our freedom and our lives.

Spies are a most important element in water, because on them depends an army's ability to move.

In war it is not men, but the man who counts.

Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away?

It's worth two divisions to me.

Iran is an island of stability in a turbulent corner of the world

He who commands the sea has command of everything.

Egypt is a large, complex, very important country.

additional pressure on Moscow will only increase. Determined to consolidate their control over the strategically and economically crucial Caucasus, the Islamists and their sponsoring states have already resolved to escalate their terroristic Jihad to achieve what no negotiations can deliver. And herein lies the quintessence of the grim prospects for the Caucasus.

The Philippines are a very important - I have many, many friends from the Philippines. They're great people. The Philippines strategically is very important to us. I think we'll have a great relationship with the Philippines. I think it's strategically very important to do so.

The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.

A victory at Kursk would shine like a beacon to the world!

So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.

If you look at the map, there's Thrace, Greece, Bulgaria, and there's tiny Gallipoli. It is such a small part of the whole peninsula, and yet you only hear about this little tiny bit.

At this point the question of Ukraine is the most important. The situation in Ukraine is very bad. If we don't take steps now to improve the situation, we may lose Ukraine. The objective should be to transform Ukraine , in the shortest period of time, into a real fortress of the U.S.S.R.

The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.