Population growth and the proliferation of mega-cities around the world redefines the entire global security agenda..

I've never been a classic Gaulist! Not a Gaulist at all..

In those years,'80 was the, at the turn of '79/'80 you had the invasion of Afghanistan. It was the period in which the Americans attempt to liberate,….

Ronad Reagan might go down to history as a man who in the end of this administration brought about the first nuclear arms reduction treaty, the first….

I think that the solution of the question of numerical superiority of Russian conventional forces has to be solved..

Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today..

Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches..

The catch word is equilibrium again, informed the field what are conventional weapons or nuclear weapons of different qualities. You cannot make up f….

People who have visions should go see a doctor..

The Alliance and NATO is two different things. France is a member of the Alliance. NATO is an organization not mentioned in the North Atlantic Treaty….

If somewhere is a deficiency the normal American answer would have been well then, let's spend some more money, build some more weapons and deploy th….

[Ronald] Reagan seems to be a man of some basic convictions and on the other hand willing to let others do the ground homework, the detailed work..

Leonid Brezhnev did not understand the enormous political importance of the decision to produce and afterwards deploy the SS-20s..

Some of the American military obviously were thinking in terms of fighting a nuclear war. I was opposed to that..

What I do see, for instance, is that the French are not very happy with the ... I am happy but they are not and I understand why they are not happy. ….

I have talked about the deterioration of the atmosphere between Washington and Moscow. It was quite clear that in the year 1980, which at the same ti….

Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military..

I have had and still do have every confidence in Paul Nitze, a man whom I have known for decades, one of the wisest servants of the American nation b….

I hate the idea that someone think the destruction of Chicago as strategic affair, the destruction of Hamburg as a tactical one..

President [Ronald] Reagan never has tried to become an expert on military matters. He never has endeavored to learn the most important details in tha….

Admirals and Generals always want more ships and more weapons and they take the arguments where they can find them..