Occupation: Author Birth: March 5, 1946
The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose/lose situation. If you are strong ….
Never' is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever..
The combination of professionalism and technology may also result in narrow-minded specialization more suited to a debating society than to an organi….
As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a strugg….
I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacif….
Our armed forces are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us.….
Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected..
The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent….
We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals….
Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from ….
It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the o….
Obviously, we don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons and I don't know if they're developing them, but if they're not developing them, they're crazy..
The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself..
Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources..
War is the greatest fun man can have with his pants on..
In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer..
If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot..
A world without war is not in the cards..