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Martin Van Creveld has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Our armed forces are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to…
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The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose/lose situation.…
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We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most…
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War is the greatest fun man can have with his pants on.
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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…
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A world without war is not in the cards.
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As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force…
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It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to…
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Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its…
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The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.
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Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another…
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If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let…
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After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former…
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It's not Beirut or Bosnia.
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To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.
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I was actually lost in Beirut on the way home.
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Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of…
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I have had a strong and a long relationship on national security, I've been involved in every national crisis that this nation…
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Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the…
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When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse…
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You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to…
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People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the…
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As I searched the atlas for somewhere to run to, Hugh made a case for his old stomping grounds. His first suggestion…
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