{"quotes":[{"text":"Why spend your life working on defense when no defense can be made truly impenetrable? Take the offensive – learn the vulnerabilities of the world around you and be the change you wish to see rather than living in constant fear of what may happen to you instead.","author":"A.J. Darkholme","tags":["ity","change","choice","choices","defence","defences","defense","defenses","destiny","detemrination","fear","impenetrable","influence","learning","life","lifetime","offence","offense","power","progress","pursuits","status","vulnerability"],"id":80487,"author_id":"A.J.+Darkholme"},{"text":"Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another.","author":"Alex Morritt","tags":["aggression","armageddon","armies","army","caucasus","caucasus-region","checkmate","checks-and-balances","cold-war","conflict-management","conflict-resolution","conflicts","cool-response","crimea","defence","defences","destruction-of-us","diplomacy","eastern-europe","eastern-european","end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it","error","errors","escalation","fear-of-unknown","fear","fears","fears-and-doubts","force","forces","forces-of-darkness","geopolitical-forces","geopolitical-tension","geopolitics","historical-perspective","history-repeating-itself","impasse","inexorably","international-community","international-relations","international-relationships","lack-of-judgement","learning-from-mistakes","lessons-learned","lessons-learned-in-life","lessons-of-life","live-and-learn","mexican-standoff","military","military-history","military","military-theory","moscow","moscow-rules","nato","nuclear-power","nuclear-proliferation","nuclear-threat","nuclear-weapons","one-upmanship","peace-on-earth","peace","peacemaker","political-commentary","political-quandary","political","politics-observation","poor-judgement","poor-leadership","power-struggle","power-struggles","quandary","red-army","regressing","regression","repeat-mistakes","repeated-mistake","repeating-the-past","rules-of-engagement","russia","russian-federation","sabre-rattling","shiver","shivers","sliding","soviet-occupation","soviet-russia","soviet-union","sphere-of-influence","spine-chilling","stalemate","standoff","struggles","super-powers","tension","treaty","troops","ukraine","warfare","warmonger","wars","weapons-of-mass-destruction"],"id":105706,"author_id":"Alex+Morritt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":2,"pages":1}}