Martin Van Creveld Quotes

Martin Van Creveld — Israeli Historian born on March 05, 1946,

Martin Levi van Creveld is an Israeli military historian and theorist... (wikipedia)

Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.

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.

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.

'Never' is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever.

The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.

Martin Van Creveld Quotes

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