“While there are many causes for which a state goes to war, its fundamental object can be epitomized as that of ensuring the continuance of its policy - in face of the determination of the opposing state to pursue a contrary policy. In the human will lies the source and mainspring of conflict.” HumansWarStatesFacesLyingCausesMilitaryPolicyObjectsSourceConflictDeterminationFundamentalsContraryPursueOpposingHuman WillContinuance Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“The military doesn't teach rifle marksmanship. It teaches equipment familiarity. Despite what the officer corps thinks, learning to shoot a rifle is not like learning to drive a car. Instead, it is like learning to play the violin.... The equipment familiarity learning curve comes up quick, but then the rifle marksmanship continuation of the curve rises very slowly....by shooting one careful shot at a time, carefully inspecting the result (and the cause).” ThinkingPlayCausesResultsTeachMilitaryCarGunShotsCome UpCarefulDespiteShootingOfficersEquipmentCurvesFamiliarityViolinRiflesContinuationLearning CurveMarksmanship Author:Daryl Davis
“In war trivial causes produce momentous events.” WarCausesMilitaryEventsProduce Author:Julius Caesar
“History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.” ProblemPoliticalCausesMilitaryEssence Author:Vladimir Lenin
“Military power serves the cause of security by making prohibitive the cost of any aggressive attack. It serves the cause of peace by holding up a shield behind which the patient constructive work of peace can go on.” CausesPeaceBehindsSecurityMilitaryGoes OnCostPatientAggressiveConstructiveShieldsMilitary Power Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“There is no military solution to the war in Iraq. Our troops can help suppress the violence, but they cannot solve its root causes. And all the troops in the world won't be able to force Shia, Sunni, and Kurd to sit down at a table, resolve their differences, and forge a lasting peace. In fact, adding more troops will only push this political settlement further and further into the future, as it tells the Iraqis that no matter how much of a mess they make, the American military will always be there to clean it up.” WorldWarMatterFactsHelpingAblePoliticalForceCausesDifferencesViolenceMilitarySolutionsRootsTablesCleanIraqSolveMessLastingResolveTroopsSettlementOur TroopsRoot CauseKurdsAmerican MilitaryShia Author:Barack Obama
“We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality.” NationsCausesMilitaryMoralityHighestHesitationDeclaring Author:Sadao Araki
“The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.” CausesMilitaryEmptyClergyWalletsAnnoyance Author:Franz Grillparzer
“The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation and they got infected with malaria, and partly cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.” PeopleWarCausesMilitaryFieldsHigherDiseaseTrainingDown AndRateBoardsCokeAtlantaRecruitMalariaPlantationsFatality Author:Bill Gates
“For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.” WarThreeCausesPeaceConditionsMilitaryAuthorityMotive Author:Ernest Hemingway
“The immediate cause of World War III is the military preparation of it.” WorldWarCausesMilitaryPreparationWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War I Author:C. Wright Mills
“As Americans, we have shown ourselves to have the greatest military on the face of the planet, but we are not so very good at anticipating threats and appreciating just how difficult it is to build up stable democracies, to make the investments and sustainable development that we must as a nation if we are to attack the root causes of these sorts of instability.” IfsFacesNationsCausesDifficultDemocracyMilitaryPlanetsDevelopmentAppreciateRootsThreatInvestmentVery GoodStableSustainable DevelopmentInstabilityRoot CauseGreatest Military Author:Martin O'Malley
“Young people are not raw material to be employed by the political class on behalf of whatever fashionable political, military, or social cause catches its fancy. In a free society, their lives are not the playthings of government.” PeopleGovernmentYoungPoliticalSocialCausesClassMilitaryMaterialsFancyEmployedBehalfFashionableFree SocietyRaw Materials Author:Ron Paul
“Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom.” KnowsWarUseCausesPartySecurityMilitaryProtectMessagesPreparedJust War Author:Joe Lieberman
“European peace movement felt that the deployment of these missiles on European soil, on German soil would be a very great danger towards the Soviet Union in that those missiles could reach the Soviet Union, make it vulnerable within five to six minutes, that it could surgical strikes, strikes into the military infrastructure and that a strike into the military infrastructure could cause in fact World War III, an atomic world war and that this could also be used for first strike, for surgical search, first strike into the Soviet Union.” WorldFirstsWarFactsWould BeUsedFeltCausesFiveMinutesMilitaryDangerMovementSixUnionsStrikesVulnerableWar Of The WorldsSoilSovietWorld War IiWorld War ISoviet UnionInfrastructureMissilesDeployment Author:Petra Kelly
“As a matter of fact, although we had some terrible challenges and temptations when I was in office, we never dropped a bomb... we never launched a missile... and we never fired a bullet. I think that one of the main requirements for a strong military, like a strong submarine force, is to prevent war, not to cause war.” ThinkingWarMatterFactsStrongForceCausesChallengesMilitaryTerribleOfficeTemptationBombsBulletsRequirementsMissilesMatter Of FactSubmarines Author:Jimmy Carter
“Legalized drugs would cause dislocations in the US economy - the prison industry for example and tens of billions spent annually on drug enforcement. But because the US economy is so large, this would be a minor blow, hardly as severe as the ultimate nightmare for the US economy, global peace, which would shutter its death industry commonly called the military/industrial complex.” Would BeCausesEconomyMilitaryExampleIndustryDrugUltimatePrisonComplexesBlowBillionsNightmareMinorsSevereEnforcementShuttersMilitary Industrial ComplexDislocationGlobal Peace Author:Charles Bowden
“The question's whether or not there's an American interest in the Civil War [in Syria]. The question is whether or not a military strike on [Bashar] Assad will cause him to be encouraged to use more weapons or discouraged. It's easy enough to say - and the president [Barack Obama] says though this will teach him a lesson - but his military strike is intended not to target him individually, not to bring about regime change.” WarEnoughUseCausesEasyPresidentInterestTeachMilitaryLessonsWeaponsStrikesBarackCivil WarTargetRegimesSyriaDiscouragedPresident Barack ObamaAssadBe EncouragedRegime Change Author:Rand Paul