Territorial adversary, economic competitor, cultural rival…
Watching the same movie and expecting a different ending…
With uncertainty comes hesitation as the decision to be taken calls for intense
calculation of cost and risks.
If one goes to that extent, one can possibly not be stopped short of extreme measures.
Sometimes, one needs to keep one’s opponent, instead of removing them.
A successful diplomacy is the one that yields at least what could have been achieved by
force while avoiding the cost of using force.
A state’s power depends on the geographic distance between the home state and the
potential war opponent…
Geographic conditions, such as shared borders or location proximity, influence the
interaction opportunities available to states.
Geographic proximity; conflict or cooperation
One manifestation of anarchy is that as several studies have found proximate states
have higher incidence of crises and wars than more distant states.
Many things can go wrong; that is, there are an endless variety of contingencies...
The present forces in the K are not nation-builders of the 20th century, but the statelets
of the Renaissance Italy (Florence, Milan, Naples, and Venice), vying for power and
acting based on the premise of balance of power to check each other’s ambition at
predominance…
War is the failure of the application of threat…
ISR is too small to tolerate any vulnerability, and too powerful to restrain itself against
threat.
A conqueror is always a lover of peace…
Fissiparous tendencies with the party…
A job of defeated statesman is to avoid presenting "compromise” (the virtue of the
old diplomacy) as the treason of the new…
In success, to disguise his selfish goal in the language of universal justice…
The desire to look important makes any people to lie and make up successful stories…