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...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and…
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The hydrogen bomb is not the answer to the Western peoples' dream of full and final insurance of their security ... While…
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The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to…
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The easiest and quickest path into the esteem of traditional military authorities is by the appeal to the eye, rather than to…
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Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in…
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A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden and overwhelming…
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The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to…
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The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and military gangs…
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The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.
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Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces…
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In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.
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The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in…
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
— Otto von Bismarck
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During the war one accepted indifferent after-dinner coffee as a necessity, but when, after the war, one sought to find the coffee…
— Constance Spry
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When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly…
— Simone Weil
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Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We did not think about the personal nature of killing in the air. We were proud of every victory in the air,…
— Gunther Rall
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If one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage…
— Zoroaster
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Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with…
— Pope Francis
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There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.
— Fredrik Bajer
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In the time of my parents, before World War One, most people who came to New Zealand from Europe were the more…
— Maurice Wilkins
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In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic…
— Jan Karon
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I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always does to war. It is not social…
— John Fowles
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I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.
— John Davis Long
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