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  • 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 Creveld
  • 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
  • Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or 'the people,' constitute the great majority of those affected.
    - Martin Van Creveld
  • A world without war is not in the cards.
    - Martin Van Creveld
  • 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