Martin Van Creveld

War is the greatest fun man can have with his pants on.

— Martin Van Creveld

A world without war is not in the cards.

— Martin Van Creveld

Never' is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever.

— Martin Van Creveld

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another…

— Martin Van Creveld

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those…

— Martin Van Creveld

In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.

— Martin Van Creveld

If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let…

— Martin Van Creveld

Obviously, we don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons and I don't know if they're developing them, but if they're not developing…

— Martin Van Creveld

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.

— Martin Van Creveld

Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its…

— Martin Van Creveld

It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to…

— Martin Van Creveld

Our armed forces are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to…

— Martin Van Creveld

As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force…

— Martin Van Creveld

The fate of Syria hangs in the balance, but it is entirely possible that the fall of the Assad regime will result…

— Martin Van Creveld

The combination of professionalism and technology may also result in narrow-minded specialization more suited to a debating society than to an organization…

— Martin Van Creveld

We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most…

— Martin Van Creveld

If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent, then you are a scoundrel... if you let…

— Martin Van Creveld

Since 2006, when the Second Lebanon War killed perhaps 2,000 Lebanese, many of them civilians, and led to the destruction of an…

— Martin Van Creveld

The defense of the West Bank by Arab forces would be a truly suicidal enterprise. The late King Hussein understood these facts…

— Martin Van Creveld

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose/lose situation.…

— Martin Van Creveld

“Though Moltke was working with subordinates who were totally lacking in comprehension for whatever strategic plans he may have entertained and who…

— Martin Van Creveld

I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists…

— Martin Van Creveld

In Tunisia, the so-called Yasmin revolution has led to the installation of a relatively moderate Islamic government. Whether or not that means…

— Martin Van Creveld

The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one;…

— Martin Van Creveld

If you are strong, and you are fighting the weak for any period of time, you are going to become weak yourself.…

— Martin Van Creveld