Fiat justitia, ruat coelum. (Do the right thing even if the heavens fall.) It's not nearly as naïve a maxim as it seems, because in the real world it…

- Gwynne Dyer

Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in and, democracy, more or less automatic…

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The military profession, especially in the long-established great powers, is deeply pessimistic about the likelihood that people and countries will b…

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Never did anyone ever stay longer than ten years because the resistance grows fiercer as your presence grows longer [in Afghanistan]. I don't think w…

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While the high-level climate talks pursue their stately progress towards some ill-defined destination, down in the trenches there is an undercurrent …

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The scientists are really scared. Their [global warming] observations over the past two or three years suggest that everything is happening a lot fas…

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For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at it, although the co…

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Now, for the moment, we are safe. The only kind of international violence that worries most people in the developed countries is terrorism: from immi…

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It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders.

- Gwynne Dyer