New Defense Secretary is a Hardliner

This article will be important for both classes later in the semester, for now enjoy the idea that might makes right.

Military Memo

Hawkish Gates Sees More Force as Leverage

But a hawk may not be all he is. His favorite quotation from history, he told reporters traveling with him this week for meetings with allies and commanders in Europe and the Middle East, is from Frederick the Great, the 18th century Prussian monarch and gifted musician: “Negotiations without arms are like music books without instruments.”

Or, put another way, it takes military power to create the leverage necessary to make negotiations fruitful.