Martin van creveld

The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.

Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.

A world without war is not in the cards.

As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.

If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot.

I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or 'the people,' constitute the great majority of those affected.

'Never' is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever.

In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.