For me, Sun Tzu's statement that military force is based upon deception is an extraordinary statement.
Paul VirilioThe globally constituted accident can be compared to what people who work at the stock exchange call 'systemic risk'.
Paul VirilioUnder the Occupation, we in Nantes were denied access to the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. It was therefore not until after the War was over that I saw the sea for the first time, in the vicinity of St Nazaire. It was there that I discovered the bunkers.
Paul VirilioTime is not something that can be measured with a pendule. Time is something that we build together within a tribe, a family, a region.
Paul VirilioThere can be no doubt about this. It even held true for the soldiers involved in the Kosovo War. For the soldiers stayed mostly in their barracks! In this way, polar inertia has truly become a mass phenomenon. And not only for the TV audiences watching the war at home but also for the army that watches the battle from the barracks.
Paul Virilio