Henry A. KissingerA collection of 23 posts

War

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstr...

Time

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every mom...

Success

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of succ...

Success

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Politics

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Politics

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Peace

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make...

Leadership

It is after all the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and t...

Leadership

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they ha...

History

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly in whatever country have ...