50.00% - The decision to send people into combat should be treated with absolute gravity — not as a policy option, but as a genuine last resort.
30.00% - An indefinite military commitment with no clear objective, no exit condition, and no win state is both a moral catastrophe and a strategic failure.
20.00% - Making war hard to start — through legal authorization, public debate, clear objectives — produces fewer wars; that's not weakness, that's the design.
War should be avoided except as a genuine last resort.
23.26% - Making war hard to start — through legal authorization, public debate, clear objectives — produces fewer wars; that's not weakness, that's the design.
23.26% - The decision to send people into combat should be treated with absolute gravity — not as a policy option, but as a genuine last resort.
18.60% - Vague threats and unenforced red lines deter no one — clear standards, consistently applied, are the only language hostile regimes respect.
13.95% - A war should be regularly re-examined and approved for extension by congress at consistent intervals.
11.63% - An indefinite military commitment with no clear objective, no exit condition, and no win state is both a moral catastrophe and a strategic failure.
9.30% - The Taliban are a theocratic totalitarian movement with no interest in any arrangement short of total control — there is no good-faith negotiation with them.
100.00% - War should be avoided except as a genuine last resort.
0.00% - War must be avoided unless it is the very last resort.
50.00% - Weinberger Doctrine