War Effectiveness Quotes

The atomic bomb is shit.... It will make a big bang—a very big bang—but it is not weapon which is useful in war.

It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.

It is simply not true that war never settles anything.

The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective.

In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better.

A country that has its own major agencies at war is not going to fight a war well.

History will judge the war against Iraq not by the brilliance of its military execution, but by the effectiveness of the post-hostilities activities

The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.

Any of these defense initiatives, looked at 10 years later, you end up asking, “Was it worth it?” Look at Vietnam. Look at Iraq 10 years later. Bin Laden, The War on Terror? We spent a trillion dollars over 10 years to put a 50 cent round in this guy’s head. Everybody thinks that’s a huge success. I don’t know.