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. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose/lose situation. If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
In Tunisia, the so-called Yasmin revolution has led to the installation of a relatively moderate Islamic government. Whether or not that means democracy will,… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
“Though Moltke was working with subordinates who were totally lacking in comprehension for whatever strategic plans he may have entertained and who on occasion… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
The fate of Syria hangs in the balance, but it is entirely possible that the fall of the Assad regime will result in anarchy… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected. — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
The combination of professionalism and technology may also result in narrow-minded specialization more suited to a debating society than to an organization whose task… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
If you are strong, and you are fighting the weak for any period of time, you are going to become weak yourself. If you… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
Since 2006, when the Second Lebanon War killed perhaps 2,000 Lebanese, many of them civilians, and led to the destruction of an entire section… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
Obviously, we don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons and I don't know if they're developing them, but if they're not developing them, they're… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
The defense of the West Bank by Arab forces would be a truly suicidal enterprise. The late King Hussein understood these facts well. Until… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
