Welcome to #NATO 101. Lesson 1
"The mere lack of #military #power is, in itself, not enough to cause a nation to lose its position vis-à-vis other states. That only happens when the people lose their individual integrity and the country gradually loses its national #integrity...
"The mere lack of #military #power is, in itself, not enough to cause a nation to lose its position vis-à-vis other states. That only happens when the people lose their individual integrity and the country gradually loses its national #integrity...
#NATO 101, Lesson 2
"No-one wants to cooperate with a country that has lost its integrity. [Even when] other countries have dealt unreasonably... who would want to damage the amity extant between [us, just by] sticking up for a state that has no national #integrity to begin with?
"No-one wants to cooperate with a country that has lost its integrity. [Even when] other countries have dealt unreasonably... who would want to damage the amity extant between [us, just by] sticking up for a state that has no national #integrity to begin with?
#NATO 101, Lesson 3.
"Many countries haven’t lost their international #prestige merely because of #poverty and #weakness... natural #disaster and poor #geography are enough to make a country weak and poor, and that can move others to sympathy. But lack of #integrity?
"Many countries haven’t lost their international #prestige merely because of #poverty and #weakness... natural #disaster and poor #geography are enough to make a country weak and poor, and that can move others to sympathy. But lack of #integrity?
#NATO 101, Lesson 4 (final)
"Lack of integrity is a self-inflicted debility... [it] shall never inspire any kind of sympathy."
(Lao She, Cat Country, 1936. Exerpt from the English edition of 1970.)
#integrity #Military #leadership #politics #ethics #amreading #philosophy
"Lack of integrity is a self-inflicted debility... [it] shall never inspire any kind of sympathy."
(Lao She, Cat Country, 1936. Exerpt from the English edition of 1970.)
#integrity #Military #leadership #politics #ethics #amreading #philosophy
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