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One Might Almost Say, To Adapt Von Clausewitz, That Modern Warfare Is Pr By Other Means. And War-winning Strategies Mean That Modern Armies Most Stop Treating Their Communications Operations As Secondary Assignments Or (as Still Too Often Happens) Dumping Grounds For Officers Who Have Failed At Everything Else - But As Missions Absolutely Essential To Success.

The Monster Has Escaped Elba!" "the Tyrant Has Landed At Cannes!" "bonaparte Meets The Troops." "napoleon Approaches Paris." "his Imperial Majesty Has Entered The Capital.

I Have A Range Of Scenarios. One Of Them Is A Chaos, That What Could Happen Is Congress Does Step Up A Little Bit And The Administration Is Paralyzed. And We Go Through All Kinds Of Constitutional Crises, Impeachment Or The 25th Amendment Removal Process. Another Frightening Scenario Is Donald Trump Is Steering His Way To A Series Of International Confrontations At The Same Time As He's Appeasing Russia.

One Of The Things You Can Learn From A Figure Like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez Is That If You Take All The Resources Of The State For Yourself, You Don't Build Much Of A Constituency And You Have To Rely On Repression, And Repression Is Difficult In The Modern World.

Anybody Who Imagines That An Election Can Be Won Under These Circumstances By Banging On About William Ayers And Jeremiah Wright Is ... To Put It Mildly ... Severely Under-estimating The Electoral Importance Of Pocketbook Issues. We Conservatives Are Sending A Powerful, Inadvertent Message With This Negative Campaign Against Barack Obama's Associations And Former Associations: That We Lack A Positive Agenda Of Our Own And That We Don't Care About The Economic Issues That Are Worrying American Voters.