Able Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The important thing to remember is war does not progress linearly. The future course of events is going to be very difficult to predict…

— H. R. McMaster

The urge to gain release from tension by action is a precipitating cause of war.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be…

— Ronald Reagan

Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace.

— Lester B. Pearson

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

— Lester B. Pearson

One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.

— Heraclitus

This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.

— Joseph Stalin

It is not scientifically possible to accurately predict the outcome of an action. To suggest otherwise runs contrary to historical experience and the nature…

— Jim Mattis

The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with the knowledge…

— Chris Hedges

We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

We know that the end of any conflict is always messy. It's never a linear path when you've been at war for almost 20…

— Morgan Ortagus

I think that war is diplomacy. There have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons and there are wars that have had…

— Stephen Lang