“And there were no signs whatever of the disagreements among capitalists—or of the Anglo-American war—that Stalin’s ideological illusions had led him to… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
“A filmmaker named Robert Goldstein was imprisoned for showing the British in a bad light in a movie about the American War… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I did not want 'Battleship' to be perceived as an American war film. I wanted to do everything I could to make… — Peter Berg Copy Share Image
When Congress passed the Authorization for the Use of Military Force immediately after the 9/11 attacks, no one could have imagined this… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
In retrospect, the political and cultural climate in the early '60s seems both a time of innocence and also like a sultry,… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
All of a sudden, making a Spanish-American War joke. I think you sort of had to go to probably to an American… — David Mandel Copy Share Image
What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
American wars in Muslim countries created some extremists and inflamed many more while producing a security vacuum that allowed them to wreak… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The intelligence community is so vast that more people have top secret clearance than live in Washington. The U.S. will spend more… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“So it might be speculated that the British exported their dissidents and so suffered their revolution three thousand miles away from home… — Timothy C.W. Blanning Copy Share Image
“From the book he carefully tears out several maps, and in this light Afghanistan’s mountains and hills and restlessly branching corridors of… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
In America, it was decided to attempt the production of atomic bombs with an effort that would constitute a large part of… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“In Europe, nobody will bleep you, if you want to say a "bad" word on TV. The idea that some self-righteous little… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“The casualties at Antietam numbered four times the total suffered by American soldiers at the Normandy beaches on June 6, 1944. More… — James M. McPherson Copy Share Image
“Media censorship is a prohibition of words and pictures. The war on drugs is a complete failure, and so is the American… — Diana Mauer Copy Share Image
A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Thus, in that inevitable taking of sides which comes from selection and emphasis in history, I prefer to try to tell the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“This giant fleet of American warships – a modern armada – churns across the ocean day and night for a journey of… — James Bradley Copy Share Image
“They exchanged notes, like children. My grandfather made his out of newspaper clippings and dropped them in her woven baskets, into which… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Known as "Ike,” Eisenhower was born prior to the Spanish American War on October 14, 1890. Graduating from West Point Military Academy… — Captain Hank Bracker Copy Share Image
“In the first summer of the Iraqi war, on the crabby, sweaty second day of a blackout that shut down the northeast’s… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“Unlike European empires, ours was supposed to entail a concert of equal, sovereign democratic American republics, with shared interests and values, led… — Greg Grandin Copy Share Image
“The war, like all wars, was proving more expensive for the Bourbons than planned. Since the alliance, France had advanced to the… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
The argument that John F. Kennedy was a closet peacenik, ready to give up on what the Vietnamese call the 'American War'… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
David Petraeus, the best known American general of his generation. After commanding the American war effort in both Iraq and Afghanistan, he… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Younger people who are being indoctrinated into the contemporary system of falsification - they really have to do some research to find… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“From the experience of state militias during the American Revolution, to the Spanish-American War; from the legendary Merrill’s Marauders, the highly skilled… — Tom Mangold Copy Share Image
The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
“I was snagged around the midriff and thrown back to the bed, my head hitting the pillows, and Vance Crowe rolled his… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
We've trained and trained for a reason: to be better at the craft of war than our enemy, to use our skill… — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
“In the weeks that followed, his poll numbers slid further after he engaged in extended attacks on the parents of a slain… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
Declarations of war have never been a constitutional requirement for military action abroad. The United States has used force abroad more than… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
“The monster in American history is not simply that which destroys. It is a being that must be destroyed. ...There can be… — W. Scott Poole Copy Share Image
“Never in the history of American warfare has this nation witnessed such an exhibition of cowardice, indecisiveness, incompetence, and laziness in the… — Dennis Byrne Copy Share Image
Saving Italy is an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy’s vast store of priceless monuments and art… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
“Southerner Tom Watson, a populist Jeffersonian from Georgia, faced potential prosecution under the law because his newspaper often opposed Wilson’s war aims… — Brion T. McClanahan Copy Share Image
Many foolish people believe that nuclear war cannot happen, because there can be no winner. However, the American war planners, who elevated… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
