Italy spills over to everything. Italy is a huge banking system. It has been the major banking system in Eastern Europe. It's worked with Austria's b….

What is American strategy first of all? So American strategy is to command the seas, right? The foundation of our power is sea control. Nobody can in….

Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term ….

What is the great fear of the United States? That an Eastern power will build a navy to challenge us. How do you keep them from doing that? Keep them….

One of the great famines in human history took place during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. [At the same time] Western journalists were reporting ho….

A century is about events. A decade is about people..

When I went to war, I did not go making geopolitical calculations. I went to war with a lust..

The United State has a net worth against which our debt is a joke ... we wrote in 2008 the United States is going to come out of this recession fast.….

The man who hates war more than he hates the Nazis is a wicked man..

The Chinese have a long history of slaughtering each other without bothering their neighbors..

Well what are our geopolitical objectives? First, that North America be peaceful, prosperous, dominated by the United States. Second, that no nation ….

With the decline of American interests in the outcome of this region, there is no glue holding it together. And the countries in this region are inve….

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of lif….

There has never been a century that has not had a systemic war - a systemic war, meaning when the entire system convulses. From the Seven Years' War ….

But every time new powers emerge they have to find their balance. New powers are emerging, old powers are declining. It's not that process that's dan….

Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete se….

Now if you can recognize and memorize a grandmaster's game, and you have the respect to understand [Zimbabwean president Robert] Mugabe who has survi….

When you're young and going to war, it's a genuinely exciting moment. You are going to risk yourself. On the battlefield, you are suddenly free. You ….

The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war..

The warrior must continue to make decisions in the face of extreme circumstances. He cannot afford to get angry or frightened..

Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demograph….