After World War I, while France and other Allies were building military defenses modeled on trench warfare, German commanders were shaping a nimble fighting force.
Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future.
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.
Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.
So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.
A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.
I've begun feeling that my responsibility is to the Earth. Our generation's war is climate change, so I've really been modifying how I eat and what I eat.
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
The framers understood that the momentous decision to go to war requires the informed consent of the American people, expressed through their elected representatives.
When I was a kid, my mum had a lot of Dumas books in the house, and she's from France originally. My mother had one particular Dumas book that was a family heirloom - this old, beat-up 1938 edition of 'The Count of Monte Cristo' in French. She came to America after losing her parents in World War II as a little kid.
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
America's gravest moral evil, chattel slavery, was defeated by an authoritarian president in a religious civil war, not by proceduralism or constitutional debate.
Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.
George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted above ability because of circumstance and organisation and empathy. You don't have to be intelligent. A moron in a hurry could know that you don't prevent war by having a war.
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.
