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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight.
- Desert
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- Nov 07, 2020
Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or 'the people,' constitute the great majority of those affected.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot.
- Deter
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- Nov 07, 2020
As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.
- Nov 07, 2020
A world without war is not in the cards.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Never' is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever.
- Idiot
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent, then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see, there is simply no escape.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fate of Syria hangs in the balance, but it is entirely possible that the fall of the Assad regime will result in anarchy and cause Syria to turn into a second Afghanistan, a base for anti-Israel terrorism.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Tunisia, the so-called Yasmin revolution has led to the installation of a relatively moderate Islamic government. Whether or not that means democracy will, however, only be put to the test if and when the time comes for another election, which the opposition may win.
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- Nov 07, 2020