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…

- Martin Van Creveld

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.…

- Martin Van Creveld

War is the greatest fun man can have with his pants on.

- Martin Van Creveld

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 …

- Martin Van Creveld

We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals…

- Martin Van Creveld

In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.

- Martin Van Creveld

A world without war is not in the cards.

- Martin Van Creveld

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.

- Martin Van Creveld

Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.

- Martin Van Creveld