All Martin Van Creveld Quotes
- Our armed forces are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world… Armed
- The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose/lose situation. If you are… Cannot Prove
- We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are… Air
- War is the greatest fun man can have with his pants on. Fun
- 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 them, they're crazy. Crazy
- A world without war is not in the cards. Cards
- As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn… Best
- It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective… Another Precisely
- Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources. Assuming
- The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. Cannot Prove
- Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without… Another Two
- If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you,… Fighting
- In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer. Both
- The combination of professionalism and technology may also result in narrow-minded specialization more suited to a debating society than to an organization whose task it… Combination
- Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected. Affected
- Never' is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever. Forever
- I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists -… Any
- The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a… Acting
- If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent, then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you,… Dilemma
- The fate of Syria hangs in the balance, but it is entirely possible that the fall of the Assad regime will result in anarchy and… Afghanistan