In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.

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.

In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.

Obviously, we don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons and I don't know if they're developing them, but if they're not developing them, they're crazy.

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

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.