We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets of our air force.

Never' is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever.

War is the greatest fun man can have with his pants on.

The combination of professionalism and technology may also result in narrow-minded specialization more suited to a debating society than to an organization whose task it is to cope with, and indeed live in, the dangerous and uncertain environment of war.

Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.