War is an extraordinary condition to be in - to be, for example, in the combat information center of a warship [and… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
When you're young and going to war, it's a genuinely exciting moment. You are going to risk yourself. On the battlefield, you… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
If you lose yourself to rage in the complexity of battle, you are going to be lost. — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Every theory I've seen that contains an explanation of war fails. I think they fail for the same reason that explanations of… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
I cannot understand how something as ubiquitous as war can simply be dismissed as pathological. It is not clear to me that… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
I think the personal and psychological aspects of war remain the same. War is about killing and dying. A man or woman… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“I had a son in 1976. When I went to Europe, I met an Italian and we became friends. We would talk… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
What is the great fear of the United States? That an Eastern power will build a navy to challenge us. How do… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“If the cost of naming the enemy is diplomatically or politically unacceptable, then the war is not likely to go well.” — George Friedman Copy Share Image
The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
When I went to war, I did not go making geopolitical calculations. I went to war with a lust. — George Friedman Copy Share Image
The important thing in war is that there is an element of rage, but you must remain very distant from it. — George Friedman Copy Share Image
One definition of the wicked is that they will resort to whatever means are necessary to achieve their ends. Therefore, if those… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
There has never been a century that has not had a systemic war - a systemic war, meaning when the entire system… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
In a way, we can have a much easier discussion about the future of technology than we can about why a young… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“President Obama dropped the term 'war on terror', and rightly so. Terrorism is not an enemy but a type of warfare that… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
There is a radical and unprecedented shift [in war] that is part of the general transformation of civilization. First, understand that the… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
The British bombed German cities [during World War II] to keep the workers awake at night. So instead of dropping one bomb,… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
By the 20th century, war ceased to be an encounter between two armies. It became an encounter between two societies, because a… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
War and sex are what I call the two abysmal - by that I mean deep - parts of the human condition. — George Friedman Copy Share Image
When you have the countries like Germany, China, and Russia decline, and be replaced by others, that's when systemic wars start. That's… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“The threats that resurfaced in the past 10 years were not an aberration. Al Qaeda and terrorism or one such threat, but it was… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“In Geo-Politics, a nation has no permanent allies or permanent enemies, only permanent interests.” — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distance and coolness are most required. I am tempted… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Assad's mother was a terror. He was terrified of her and she kept saying to him, you're not like your father. That's interesting, but… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
The Chinese have a long history of slaughtering each other without bothering their neighbors. — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Italy spills over to everything. Italy is a huge banking system. It has been the major banking system in Eastern Europe. It's worked with… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
If you go through the list of things that are not possible you're left with a very finite amount of possibilities. The fancy name… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
But every time new powers emerge they have to find their balance. New powers are emerging, old powers are declining. It's not that process… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
We cannot anticipate the moral circumstances under which we will live. And therefore [I refuse] to say that I will not live in a… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“While you and I are allowed the luxury of our pain, president isn't. A president must take into account how his citizens feel and… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
War is an extraordinary condition to be in - to be, for example, in the combat information center of a warship [and behaving] as… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
When you're young and going to war, it's a genuinely exciting moment. You are going to risk yourself. On the battlefield, you are suddenly… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
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