Afghanistan Quote by Noam Chomsky

William R. Polk discusses the Spanish guerrilla war against Napoleon [ Bonaparte] and other cases where the conflict turns into a political war, and…

— Noam Chomsky

“Savage violence has erupted in recent years across a broad swathe of territory: wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, suicide bombings in Belgium,…

— Pankaj Mishra

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there…

— Nelson Mandela

Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

The American Revolution was a small part of a major world war going on between France and England, so the French intervened and that…

— Noam Chomsky

Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20th century, we kids fought it every Fourth…

— Paul Engle

“Warfare is now an interlocking system of actions—political, economic, psychological, military—that aims at the overthrow of the established authority in a country and its…

— Roger Trinquier

Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.

— Conrad Black

“From the experience of state militias during the American Revolution, to the Spanish-American War; from the legendary Merrill’s Marauders, the highly skilled and toughened…

— Tom Mangold

“most accounts of the war, Missouri tends to wink out of existence after the first year, or makes periodic cameos as a sideshow of…

— Mark A. Lause

“From the experience of state militias during the American Revolution, to the Spanish-American War; from the legendary Merrill’s Marauders, the highly skilled and toughened…

— Tom Mangold

Occupation almost always breeds an insurgency, as the U.S. discovered in the Philippines, and later in Viet Nam.

— John Mearsheimer