Ehud Barak Quotes

The Artillery Barrage: The last reasoning of Kings.

In a war the aggressor sets the rules.

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

The great questions of the day are not to be decided by speeches and majorities ... but by iron and blood.

After all, it is not nice going to war with one’s equal or possible superior in strength – so different from those delightful “military operations” which consist in “potting”, savages with an amount of danger just sufficient to give a zest to the sport …But then the special line the skill of our ablest and most valiant generals takes is that of “thrashing a cannibal.” Thrashing a Cossack is a different sort of thing.

Sometimes there is no substitute for military action.

There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.

Battles decide everything.

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles.

It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.

Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.

Wars are to be won with swords and spears, not with rice and salt.

Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet!

War is the science of destruction.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

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.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

Peace is obtained by war.

All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.