Edward Luttwak Quotes

United States, Political Scientist
November 4, 1942

Edward Nicolae Luttwak is a political scientist known for his works on grand strategy, military history, and international relations. He is best known for being the author of Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook.

If your tank battalion has the choice of a good highway or a bad road, take the bad road.

Edward Luttwak
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Strategically, it is that same paradoxical logic that transforms victories into defeats if they merely persist long enough to pass their culminating point, whether by overextension or by bringing others into the fray, or both. And there is much more of the same, at every level of struggle, from the clash of weapons to the clash of empires, and in peace as well as in war. Always and everywhere it is the paradoxical logic of strategy that determines outcomes, whether the protagonists know of its existence or not.

Edward Luttwak

We live in fortunate times in which we have only the irritant of terrorism instead of world wars to worry about.

Edward Luttwak