Strategy is something that emerges from reality, while tactics might be chosen..

If you lose yourself to rage in the complexity of battle, you are going to be lost..

It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet Union, who managed the Cold….

Germany is the new pig. Germany depends on exports and its markets are drying up. When the Germans start getting 10% unemployment, 15% unemployment, ….

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….

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

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….

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….

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

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

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

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

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

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 ….

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 ….

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

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….