Martin Van Creveld Quotes

There must be some security arrangement in the south of Lebanon so northern Israel is not threatened anymore.

Nations want the United States to fight their wars, until they go bad.

For a long time, it was believed that war was waged by armies which could not be identified with the nation itself. Professional soldiers took upon themselves the job of defending national interests, and it was understood that the war affected only them; the country itself went on living and working.

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.

To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country.

I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel, we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that, but we would not make any turmoil out of it.

The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel.

A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

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.

Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

Mr. Chairman, the price for continuing this war is too high, not only in budgetary terms, but in American lives, Iraqi civilian casualties blamed on America and in the steady increase in the terrorist ranks that this war is provoking around the globe.

To be a good reporter, writing about war, you have to write about the people. It's not about the tanks or the RPGs or military strategy. It's always about the effect war has on civilians, on society, and how it disrupts and destroys lives.

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

Everything, everything in war is barbaric…But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

I don’t see any role for American peacekeepers in the Middle East because there is no peace to be kept.

Civil wars tend to spread to neighboring countries. That’s what history shows.

I have always done my best to keep my young men quiet, but some will not listen, and since the fighting began I have not been able to keep them all at home.

Haven’t we learned that when you go to war, the outcome is unpredictable.

To bring about a permanent peace in Syria, the southern part of the country must be protected.