Walter Millis Quotes

Is a military solution the only way to stop nations from doing bad things?

Projectile: The final arbiter in international disputes …

The demilitarization of Europe—where large swaths of the general public and political class are averse to military force and the risks that go with it—has gone from the blessing of the 20th century to an impediment to achieving real security and lasting peace in the 21st.

If you don't want war, then you had better be an advocate for diplomacy with muscle.

I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

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

I saw our bombs as political resources for peace.

He had rather spend 100,000 pounds on Embassies to keep or procure peace with dishonor, than 100,000 pounds on an army that would have forced peace with honor.

Military force is not the first option, but it is there if needed.

What I have learned about Afghanistan is that force carries more weight than anything else.

Soft power … cannot accomplish much in the absence of a willingness to use hard power.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.

We all say no to war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won't be the case.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.