The danger is that each time they clash, even by proxy, they risk turning strategy into war.
Bush told his National Security Council staff, as one of them recalled it, that he feared that if the U.S. did not change its strategy the war would be lost.
But the truth is that for the better part of the last several decades, with occasional important exceptions, this sort of "half pregnant" strategy for war fighting has been the template for Western armies.
Perhaps to move Obama as he ponders a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan.
David Petraeus, the U.S. commander in Iraq, are to report to Congress in September on conditions related to the war strategy.
Johnson's strategy was a war of attrition, a disastrous choice for a democracy.
It seems I'm not the only conservative in America who has doubts about the necessity of a nation-building war strategy.
Petraeus to take over command, the president signaled continuity in war strategy.
America has apparently abandoned hope that Turkey can be used as major part of the military strategy for the war originally envisaged.
Professor LEONARD WONG (Military Strategy, Army War College): At this point, it's not cause for a massive alarm, but it is cause for concern.
The act and its changes, along with the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, were major components of the Truman administration's Cold War strategy.
In America's recent election, neither side wanted to discuss in any depth either the stakes of the Afghanistan conflict or a sustainable future strategy for the war.
It would put question-marks next to Mr Bush's judgment in recruiting him in the first place and next to the administration's wider strategy in the war on terror.
Its job was to review this intelligence to help digest it for me and other policymakers, to help us develop Defense Department strategy for the war on terrorism.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: DOD Briefing on Intelligence Matters
British Prime Minister Tony Blair will travel to Washington this week to meet with Bush and discuss strategy for the war in Iraq, according to administration and diplomatic sources.
It was because we needed people looking at that intelligence, good intelligence produced by the CIA and other agencies -- we needed people looking at it from the point of view of what do we need to understand from this intelligence about these connections to allow us to develop a Defense Department strategy for the war on terrorism.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: DOD Briefing on Intelligence Matters
President Bush's speech at the Naval Academy today had two goals: to lay out in more detail how he plans to win the war in Iraq, and to answer critics who say he either has no strategy to win the war or that he's incapable of changing course.
Observers say the report offers President George W. Bush the outlines of an exit strategy from the unpopular war, saying the primary mission of U.S. forces in Iraq should evolve into one of supporting the Iraqi Army.
It is harder for Mr Blair to defend the war's strategy than its morality.
All of this is not to say that certain concepts of Cold War era deterrence strategy are not still applicable.
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Lacking charisma or a record of delivering better public services, he has built his electoral strategy on delivering better security for war-weary Iraqis.
In World War I the Allied strategy was to engage and defeat the center of gravity of the Central Powers, the German field army.
This would enable the Bush administration to declare a kind of victory (for its latest strategy, if not for the war itself) and to begin drawing down the troop levels soon.
The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff on Thursday urged civilian and military personnel to do a better job of explaining President Bush's strategy to achieve victory in his war on terrorism.
Mikhail Barclay de Tolly, his war minister, devised and implemented the strategy of drawing Napoleon deep inside Russia, away from his supply base, exhausting his army by defensive war and then attacking.
Like the ill-fated British Light Brigade's charge against the Russians in the Crimean War, Pittsburgh's strategy was a suicide mission.
Bidders consider the swath of spectrum, which could be used for mobile television or advanced data services for cellphones, so valuable that some have assembled war rooms to plot their strategy.
These weren't just violent acts of war, but part of a strategy.
Yet those who complain she lacks a grand strategy to subdue a messy post-cold war world may be missing the point about Albright.
I'm a student at the University of Iowa, and I would like to hear what Barack Obama has to say about the war in Iraq, what his strategy is resolving that.
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