Bruce Hoffman Win Quotations

It's like Sun Tzu, the Chinese strategist, said years ago. Only if you know your enemy can you win the battle.

One of the problems with the kill-or-capture metric is that it has often been to the exclusion of having a deeper, richer understanding of the movement, its origins, and our adversaries' mindset. The nuances are absolutely critical. Our adversaries are wedded to the ideology that informs and fuels their struggle, and, by not paying attention, we risk not knowing our enemy.

It's enormously tempting to speculate ... without knowing where he is, it's impossible to say.