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title: "5 Future War Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [What is certain about the future is that even the best efforts to predict the conditions of future war will prove erroneous.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-r-mcmaster/what-is-certain-about-the-future-is-that-even-the-best-efforts-to/)

[H. R. McMaster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-r-mcmaster/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1d/h-r-mcmaster-16254_best_what-is-certain-about-the-future-is-that_546189.png)

> [First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alva-myrdal/first-and-foremost-arms-are-tools-in-the-service-of-rival-nations/)

[Alva Myrdal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alva-myrdal/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f1/alva-myrdal-17024_arms_first-and-foremost-arms-are-tools-in-the_1288868.png)

> [What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-r-mcmaster/what-we-can-afford-least-is-to-define-the-problem-of-future-war-as-we/)

[H. R. McMaster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-r-mcmaster/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d30/h-r-mcmaster-16254_delusion_what-we-can-afford-least-is-to-define-th_1404495.png)

> [The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-robert-oppenheimer/the-atomic-bomb-made-the-prospect-of-future-war-unendurable-it-has/)

[J. Robert Oppenheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-robert-oppenheimer/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a42/j-robert-oppenheimer-6978_atomic-bomb_the-atomic-bomb-made-the-prospect-of-fut_2288678.jpg)

> [The function and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jimmy-doolittle/the-function-and-navy-in-any-future-war-will-be-to-support-the/)

[Jimmy Doolittle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jimmy-doolittle/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb5/jimmy-doolittle-33892_air_the-function-and-navy-in-any-future-war_2944335.jpg)

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