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Preemption | Potentially | Tool | Trot | Throw |
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Preemption is and always will be a potentially useful tool, but it's not something you want to trot out and throw in everybody's face. To have a strategy on preemption and make it central is a huge error.
- Harlan Ullman
You have this simultaneous effect, rather like the nuclear weapons at Hiroshima, not taking days or weeks but in minutes. You're sitting in Baghdad and all of a sudden you're the general and 30 of your division headquarters have been wiped out. You also take the city down. By that I mean you get rid of their power, water. In two, three, four, five days they are physically, emotionally and psychologically exhausted.
- Harlan Ullman