“When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.” ThinkingWarYoungRolesMilitaryEasierSoldierCommitTendenciesCombat Author:Walter Dean Myers
“The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening resistance. By contrast, the narrowing of the frontage made it easier for the defender to switch his local reserves to any threatened point on the defensive arc.” MadeMilitaryEasierArmyLocalsResistanceMade ItContrastReservesThreatenedScopeArcsDefendersLeversTacticalStalingrad Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.” MenWarHumanityPassionPeaceLeadershipMilitaryEasierLaborDirectPatiencePatientCombatAntiwarStirringPeacemakingBeing At PeaceAchieving PeaceBringing Peace Author:Andre Gide
“It is a damned sight easier to start wars than to end them. This truth has been stated for as long and as often as it has been ignored. High time and thank God, we are at least moving toward de-escalation in Vietnam. The road to extrication will be long, painful, bitter. But it must be trod. We are so bogged down in Vietnam that we cannot respond effectively anywhere else in the world to a military power play except through atomic bombardment.” WorldLongHas BeensWarEndsPlayMovingMilitaryEasierSightPainfulBitterThank GodVietnamIgnoredAtomic BombMilitary PowerEscalationPower PlayStart Wars Author:Malcolm Forbes
“The problem is that Iran has been identified as a dangerous enemy, and the longer the media forwards that proposition - and the media is guilty, just as it was in the Iraq war - then the easier it becomes for Americans to accept that we might just have to resort to military force to remove any Iranian threat.” Has BeensWarProblemMightForceAcceptingEnemyMediaMilitaryDangerousEasierThreatIraqGuiltyRemoveIranPropositionsResortsIraq WarIranianMilitary Force Author:Hooman Majd
“The question becomes, because we're remotely far away from the territory we're about to bomb, does it make it easier to do it? That it is an important question, and the military is asking those questions.” DoeImportantMilitaryEasierAskingBombsTerritoryFar AwayImportant Questions Author:Gavin Hood