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As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have…

— Adam Hochschild

The war on terror, sometimes known as the 'Global War on Terror' or by the clunky acronym GWOT, became the lens through which the…

— Peter Bergen

A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations

— Otto Von Bismarck

“Ill-advisedly, the western Allies, following the defeat of Germany in World War I, sought to punish and degrade their adversary rather than rebuilding the…

— Charles River Editors

Military and absolutist regimes are undoubtedly well fitted to get the jump on an unsuspecting or unprepared enemy; but the history of modern warfare…

— Samuel Eliot Morison

“The war against terror is not really about terror. It's about a superpower's self-destructive impulse toward supremacy, stranglehold, global hemegony.”

— Arundhati Roy

“Despite these warnings, the Great powers’ arsenals were brimful; their ranks, swollen. In this light, to suggest they groped or sleepwalked blindly into a…

— Paul Ham

While the Second World War brought about untold misery and suffering, it was also a time when the world witnessed extraordinary bravery. Through the…

— Sam Kutesa

For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language…

— James Branch Cabell

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

— James Madison

National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants.

— George Will