Reagan won the Cold War by first restoring America's economy and military and then staring down an economically weakened Soviet Union. He… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
“Take a Somalian toddler. She has a 20% probability of dying before reaching the age of five. Now compare: American frontline soldiers… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
It is certainly of great importance for a general to keep his plans secret; and Frederick the Great was right when he… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
Sociologists and historians have avoided looking for the family sources of wars and social violence. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
“I'm hip to their game, hip to the science of war Propoganda makes me fight but what am I fightin for? My… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of… — Frank Carlucci Copy Share Image
“As daughter of our ruler I grew up in the crossfire of an ongoing war... All I’d ever wanted to be was… — Alexandra May Copy Share Image
If you don't understand weapons you don't understand fighting. If you don't understand fighting you don't understand war. If you don't understand… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Let's contemplate this, how many people would die if war breaks out. There are 2.7 billion people in the world. One-third could… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Westin celebrated the New Year by shooting off some hand flares. Orders were “no fireworks,” but you couldn’t expect several hundred thousand… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
The mind can be the harshest battleground. It can be the place where the greatest conflicts are carried out. Its where half… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
The most constructive solutions are those which take into consideration the views of all persons involved and are acceptable to all. Such… — Gabor Peter Copy Share Image
I grew up reading Tolkien, and I love him. But I love him in the way that you love that rambly old… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“The destruction of Dresden was an overkill. It was done in February, 1945, when it was clear that Germany would lose the… — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
“At the front, people die for their mistakes. Why should politicians be more gently treated? They made the war. They deserve a… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time on a small, watery, excitable planet called Earth, in a small, watery, excitable country called Italy, a soft-spoken,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“She resolved conflicts by either agreeing or quietly going about her business and doing things her way. Conflict was too hard to… — Deanna Lynn Sletten Copy Share Image
I mean, the job is Pearl Harbor. And you better not spends weeks and weeks and weeks trying to assign blame or… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The Nephilim was something I'd known about since I was really young. If you're familiar with the first book of the Bible,… — Carl McCoy Copy Share Image
In the mighty and almost limitless potential of American industry-the brilliance and rugged determination of its leaders; the skill, energy and patriotism… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing funny about war. Well, aside from this joke Orafoura told me: What did WWI say to WWII? I wish I… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and… — Gary Frank Copy Share Image
If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
For the US, the Kosovo War was a success because it encouraged the development of the Pentagon's 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA).… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
When human rights are systematically abused, it raises the question whether it may be legitimate in some circumstances for the international community… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
Growing up in the shadow of Johnson Space Center and moving to Texas to welcome our last moon mission home, I wanted… — Pete Olson Copy Share Image
“This might just be two people in a queue, but this has become a mighty battle of wills - a war between… — Danny Wallace Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you the truth about the world to which you so desperately want to return. It is a place of… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
'Battle: Los Angeles' - I've got to say this was easily one of the most physically trying things that I've ever done… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
“The appalling destruction and misery of this war mount hourly: destruction of what should be (indeed it is) the common wealth of… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
“In the last months of the war, when I raped in uniform – we were, by then, so full of death (and… — Martin Amis 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
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
