In the anarchic world of international politics, it is better to be Godzilla than Bambi.

Offensive realism predicts that the United States will send its army across the Atlantic when there is a potential hegemon in Europe that the local great powers cannot contain by themselves.

I believe that the existing power structures in Europe and Northeast Asia are not sustainable through 2020.

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

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

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

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.