Strategic Options Quotes

When you are Commander in Chief, you should keep all your options on the table.

Normally, what happens when we have a national leader who wants to do something in terms of military intervention, he tells the Pentagon, put together some options to accomplish goal.

What he's really talking about - and I'm speaking for Mike Flynn, not Donald Trump - is that he's saying, essentially, we have to have options. We have to have a lot of options. And, frankly, we do. We do have a lot of options.

Special ops isn't the answer to everything. Special ops is not the main guard.

An American leader would be derelict of duty if he did not seek to understand all his options in such unprecedented circumstances. Presidents Lincoln during the Civil War and Roosevelt in the lead-up to World War II sought legal advice about the outer bounds of their power - even if they did not always use it. Our leaders should ask legal questions first, before setting policy or making decisions in a fog of uncertainty.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

We can determine our strategic part or strategic options, but the strategic framework is something which will evolve from the interaction of world powers with each other.

Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around.

No American President should ever take any option off the table.

I don't think that strategically it is smart to begin cutting your options when the other side does not move at all.

In the middle, it gives you lots of options. You can make a run on the right, on the left, deep in the center. It's a big advantage.

Preserve the President's options. He may need them.

I have said publicly no option should be off the table, but I would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table.

Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.