It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
I wish we could see understanding the First World War as a European issue, or even a global one, and not a nationalistic one.
If you wish for peace, understand war.
Women are so much a part of war, even if they tend to see another side of it. To say they don't understand war is ridiculous.
If you're going to see 'City of Ghosts' because you want to understand everything about the Syrian conflict and how to fix it, then it's the wrong film to see.
If you don't understand weapons you don't understand fighting. If you don't understand fighting you don't understand war. If you don't understand war you don't understand history. And if you don't understand history you might as well live with your head in a sack.
The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
I know of no scholar more dedicated to bringing a thorough and accurate portrayal of America's involvement in Vietnam than Mark Moyar. Everyone who is interested in a full picture of that oft-misunderstood war should be grateful for his effort.
The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a real tradition of skepticism in this country.
I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.
The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age.
In 1940 I was just turning 5 years old and being taken to the movies. For those of us who were not old enough to understand the horror of war it was a very romantic era because these guys were kissing their wives and girlfriends goodbye and going off to fight and become heroes.
I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as a large thing, one of the biggest events in the legend of the man, something general, involving multitudes.
War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.
By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented.
