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Strategy and Tactics - 2005/12/19 23:21
Here`s what Tom Clancy has to say about the subject in "Red Rabbit" on page 171.
But how did you stop the Party or the KGB from doing something? To do that, Zaitzev knew, you had, at the very least, to demonstrate that the proposed action was contrary to political theory or would have adverse political consequences, because politics was the measure of right and wrong. But wasn`t politics too fleetinf for that? Didn`t "right" and "wrong" have to depend on something more solid than mere politics? Wasn`t there some higher value system? Politics was just "tactics", after all, wasn`t it? and while tactics were important, strategy was more so, because strategy was the measure of what you used tactisc for, and strategy in this case was supposed to be what was right--transcendentally right. Not just right at the moment, but right for all times--something historians could examine a hundred or a thousand years and pronounce as correct action.
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