Admirals and Generals always want more ships and more weapons and they take the arguments where they can find them.
Helmut SchmidtIf somewhere is a deficiency the normal American answer would have been well then, let's spend some more money, build some more weapons and deploy them. That's the normal way of thinking of the military, in America not only but also all over the place, but America or Russia or other countries.
Helmut SchmidtLeonid Brezhnev did not understand the enormous political importance of the decision to produce and afterwards deploy the SS-20s.
Helmut SchmidtPopulation growth and the proliferation of mega-cities around the world redefines the entire global security agenda.
Helmut SchmidtWhat I do see, for instance, is that the French are not very happy with the ... I am happy but they are not and I understand why they are not happy. They still believe in some nuclear strategic formulas which they have inherited from General De Gaulle and they have started the process of rethinking, they haven't gone very far.
Helmut Schmidt