Ground Quote by Stanley A. McChrystal

Wars are begun by frightened men. They fear war, but more than that, they fear what will happen if they don't start one or…

— Tom Clancy

The nature of war is constant change.

— Sun Tzu

Wars are begun by frightened men.

— Tom Clancy

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

— Newt Gingrich

Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone themselves.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

— Winston Churchill

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal…

— George Orwell

War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death.

— Marguerite Duras

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

— Carl von Clausewitz

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

— Heraclitus

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

— Carl von Clausewitz

If you start thinking war is inevitable, then in your own times, you don't resist it as strongly as you should.

— Margaret MacMillan