Thirty years Quote by Andrew Feinstein

The World War demonstrated the importance of Field Artillery. The majority of casualties were inflicted by the arm.

— John J. Pershing

“Waving his arm over the carnage, the German remarked that the American attack that morning had been a “foolish affair.” He himself had known…

— Joseph E. Persico

Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms...

— Simone Weil

War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.

— Thucydides

“general amorality of the weapons business in their disdain for any kind of control over the arms trade, their dislike of attempts to promote…

— Andrew Feinstein

...war is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but…

— Livy

“Grossly to oversimplify the contributions made by the three leading members of the Grand Alliance in the Second World War, if Britain had provided…

— Andrew Roberts

“It is the violence which is done and threatened to our persons; the destruction of our property by an armed force; the invasion of…

— Thomas Paine

“THE FIRST WORLD WAR was a tragic and unnecessary conflict. Unnecessary because the train of events that led to its outbreak might have been…

— John Keegan

I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the…

— John Amery

“But harder heads saw another advantage in taking sides in a distant struggle: Britain and France owed massive debts to American companies. If the…

— Joseph E. Persico

Britain is one of the biggest arms dealers in the world, after the States. There's a lot of money in weapons deals. We sell…

— Paul Conroy