As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.
Martin Van CreveldAssuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.
Martin Van CreveldI 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.
Martin Van Creveld