The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.
Martin Van CreveldThe problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.
Martin Van CreveldSun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.
Martin Van CreveldIt 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.
Martin Van Creveld