Martin Van Creveld Quotes

I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.

Any country that has a nuclear bomb is a super power.

I built a nuclear option to get peace, not to have bombs. Our enemies learned that they could not destroy us.

We have the best-trained military in the world.

America has the largest nuclear capability in the world. All this power neither prevented 9/11 nor helped to avenge it. How could it? Who would America have attacked?

Power alone is respected and ... in order to gain peace, the United States has no alternative but to wield it

To be a major power, a country must have nuclear weapons.

India will, in the next two decades become a major power and if it fails to do that external pressures will break her up

With tanks, airplanes and the atomic bomb, war can become instantaneous and disaster can occur while Congress is assembling and debating.

Our enemies and allies alike must know that aggressors will pay an unspeakable price for challenging the United States. The best way to impose that price is global military dominance.

We are not a gigantic state, we do not have nuclear weapons, but our army is sufficiently capable to respond to any threat... Therefore, we will protect our patch of land, our statehood, and our independence.

I don't believe Russia would attack a NATO country or NATO as such, no matter which country we are talking about.

The United States has the most capable military in the world. We have the best intelligence agencies.

We've just got to have American strength on the world stage. When Donald Trump becomes president of the United States, the Russians and other countries in the world will know they're dealing with a strong American president.

Today, Israel is stronger than ever. Israel has defensive tools of its own - those developed in the past and those developed today and those that will be developed tomorrow.

If we build our military up to Ronald Reagan levels, [Vladimir] Putin's not going to push us anywhere because he can't match us.

Peace through strength works. We've got the greatest military in the world. I want them to dominate any potential conflict.

North Korea has the same ability to launch a nuclear strike against America as I do. It's like walking through a parking lot and getting barked at by a chihuahua locked in a car.

[Barack] Obama has betrayed Israel, gutted the military, and apologized on ten world tours.

We need to deter Putin from further actions because this is a very real threat.

The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons.

If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent. 'Credibility' is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we'll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.

Putin is going to be considering the United States his number one enemy no matter who our president is - and no matter who's elected, that isn't going to change. I think Putin is loving the media saying he's got all this power, 'cause they're a Third World country outside of their military.

The world is a safer and better place that the United States is the strongest military power on earth. The stronger you are, the less likelihood you'll ever have to use it.

I will make certain that our military is the best in the world in both cyber offense and defense and in every other way, by the way. Every other way.