Quotes about "War & Peace"

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war. ”

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him. ”

In 1940, Germany toppled France in 20 days, and the panzerdivizion symbolized war's shift from drawn-out conflicts using massive fortifications to rapid-fire engagements built around manned, motorized armor. ”

After World War I, while France and other Allies were building military defenses modeled on trench warfare, German commanders were shaping a nimble fighting force. ”

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. ”

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro. ”

We will employ almost every strategy and hustle in any possible way to recruit top engineers to our team. ”

The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century. ”

The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization. ”

The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs. ”