The British bombed German cities [during World War II] to keep the workers awake at night. So instead of dropping one bomb, we sent a thousand planes and, yes, we took out the factory sometimes, but we also took out the city. It reached the point where we wanted more efficient ways to destroy a city. The result was nuclear weapons.

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are at stake.

War and sex are what I call the two abysmal - by that I mean deep - parts of the human condition.

The man who hates war more than he hates the Nazis is a wicked man.

When I went to war, I did not go making geopolitical calculations. I went to war with a lust.

The important thing in war is that there is an element of rage, but you must remain very distant from it.

Constraint theory defines for you what outcomes are possible and what outcomes are impossible. It also eliminates wishful thinking.