Martin Van Creveld Quotes

Martin Van Creveld

Israeli Historian

Born: Mar 5, 1946

Fighting Strong Time War Will You

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If you are strong, and you are fighting the weak for any period of time, you are going to become weak yourself. If you behave like a coward, then you are going to become cowardly - it's only a question of time. Martin Van Creveld

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If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. Martin Van Creveld

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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 Creveld

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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. Martin Van Creveld

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. Martin Van Creveld

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A world without war is not in the cards. Martin Van Creveld

War World Without Cards

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

Word Too Much Nothing Too Lasts Never Forever Much

Since 2006, when the Second Lebanon War killed perhaps 2,000 Lebanese, many of them civilians, and led to the destruction of an entire section of Beirut, the northern border has been absolutely quiet. Martin Van Creveld

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