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.
Rather than recognize that they are both subordinate to and supportive of Damascus and Teheran's terror war strategy against Israel, Olmert and his associates are using the foreign elements of the war as a way to say that the Palestinians are not responsible even though they are the ones carrying out the operations on the ground.
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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.
And the White House has released an update of its preemptive war strategy.
Although the test reactor worked flawlessly, the project was shelved, a victim of political considerations and Cold War strategy.
Both men have been breaking from Bush's current war strategy, while remaining opposed to specific deadlines for troop withdrawal.
It seems I'm not the only conservative in America who has doubts about the necessity of a nation-building war strategy.
On other counts, the report could be damaging to Mr Bush, especially regarding his grand strategy in the war on terror.
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.
UNFORTUNATELY, THE US's containment strategy in its War on Terror is undermined by the second and third problems inherent to its policies.
Accordingly, the President's strategy in the war on terrorism has three parts.
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Some GOP senators told Bush's top national security aide Wednesday they were unwilling to wait until September to discuss changes in war strategy.
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.
Only after the massive rejection of Republicans in the 2006 congressional elections did the Bush White House fundamentally alter its war strategy in Iraq.
The recommendations McChrystal makes are meant to advise Obama on how to implement the president's war strategy, not "launch a new one, " Gates said.
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.
Doctors had been labelled "enemies of the state" for treating the injured and both sides were now using hospitals as a war strategy, MSF said.
However, the one-and-a-half-war strategy has significant implications for the other services.
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Blair will travel to Washington this week to meet with President Bush and discuss strategy for the war in Iraq, administration and diplomatic sources have told CNN.
Alas, no number of hours devoted to dialogue, be they ever so Socratic, can guarantee hitting on a winning strategy in a war as messy as this.
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.
Our main destination is southern Afghanistan where thousands of Marines are headed in the coming weeks to carry out President Obama's war strategy of securing the country.
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.
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