Quotes about "War & Peace"

Creative processes are always very opaque. Afterwards, you tend to pretend that everything was planned and it was a strategy, but it was not like that at all. ”

I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion about the U.S. military. ”

What is and isn't justified by military necessity is, naturally, open to interpretation. One of the key concepts, though, is the law of proportionality. A military attack that results in civilian casualties - 'collateral damage' - is acceptable as long as the military benefits outweigh the price that is paid by humanity. ”

The American military generally counts on a kill ratio of 10 to 1 when fighting lightly armed insurgents: for every dead American, there are probably 10 dead enemy. ”

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have. ”

Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty. ”

I came from a military family, so there are a lot of things I think about when the anthem is playing. ”

The iPhone in conjunction with the Filmic Pro app - the resolution is HD quality. ”

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict. ”

It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis. ”