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.

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.

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

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.

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

It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight.

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