When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions.

Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity.

The German air offensives against British cities in World Wars I and II not only failed to coerce the United Kingdom to surrender, but Germany also lost both wars.

States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power.

Bandwagoning is a strategy for the weak.

This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.

The most dangerous states in the international system are continental powers with large armies.