- “Don’t exploit your advantages to force the other side into a choice between a serious defeat and the use of force.” (p. 106)
Lesson: Don’t force your adversary into a corner: let them have a way out for retreat.
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- “The problem in a crisis is to devise a strategy which will allow you to achieve your objectives without a military confrontation….If we are going to be able to manage crises successfully in the future, we need to build a repertoire of strategies to choose from.” (p. 106)
Lesson: To manage future crises, we much devise strategies to achieve our objectives without the use of force.
Cited in James G. Blight and David Welch, On the Brink: Americans and Soviets reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis (New York: Hill and Wang, 1989).
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