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

The first thing you have to do is understand what success looks like. And to understand what success looks like you have to understand the intent. If you understand that intent is to make sure the sea lines are secure, then suddenly bombing Kosovo makes sense, because you don't want Serbia to reemerge as a major power.

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

I think there are worse things than war. For example, injustice.

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

Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as they believed their own rhetoric.

The Chinese have a long history of slaughtering each other without bothering their neighbors.