War Studies Quotes

It's important to study and understand your responsibilities within any profession, but it's particularly important for military officers to read, think, discuss, and write about the problem of war and warfare so they can understand not just the changes in the character of warfare but also the continuities.

I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism.

There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can’t we study peace?

Let us start with the title of War and Cinema. The important part of the title is not War and Cinema.

In my world of the people who study war and defense issues, we simply did not talk about robotics. We do not talk about it because it's seen as mere science fiction. It's cold, hard, metallic reality.

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

The art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated; ... it demands much previous study; and ... the possession of it, in its most improved and perfect state, is always a great moment to the security of a nation. This, therefore, ought to be a serious care of every government; and for this purpose, an academy, where a regular course of instruction is given, is an obvious expedient, which different nations have successfully employed.

The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.

I'm a military history buff.