Author: Martin Van Creveld

Quotes

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

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

- Martin Van Creveld

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or 'the people,' constitute the great majority of those affected.

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or 'the people,' constitute the great majority of those affected.

- Martin Van Creveld

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 me.

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 me.

- Martin Van Creveld

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 struggle into suicide.

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 struggle into suicide.

- Martin Van Creveld

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