“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
“Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. ... If the government can compel such citizens as are fit for military service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and perform other martial duties in time of war, how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their children to school, because in this case we are warring with the devil, whose object it is secretly to exhaust our cities and principalities of their strong men.” PeopleIfsMenChildrenWarGovernmentSchoolStrongCitiesCasesMilitaryObjectsDutyBearsCitizensFitAuthorityDevilDearObligationRulersRiflesSpearsStrong ManMilitary Service Author:Martin Luther
“Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently produced on the way to producing something else but is the relentless object of all military activity.” WayWarPiecesMilitaryObjectsActivityWeaponsStrategyInjuryRelentlessExhaustingMilitarism Book:The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World Source: The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
“A defensive war is apt to betray us into too frequent detachment. Those generals who have had but little experience attempt to protect every point, while those who are better acquainted with their profession, having only the capital object in view, guard against a decisive blow, and acquiesce in small misfortunes to avoid greater.” LittlesWarViewsGreaterMilitaryObjectsProtectBlowProfessionMisfortunesBetrayDetachmentTotal War Author:Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
“Go, therefore, to meet the foe with two objects before you, either victory or death. For men animated by such a spirit must always overcome their adversaries, since they go into battle ready to throw away their lives.” MenTwoSpiritMilitaryObjectsReadyVictoryBattleOvercomingFoeAdversariesAnimated Author:Scipio Africanus
“When you innovate no one else can figure out how to do what you're doing because you're too far ahead of them. And the day they do figure out, you're on to the next object, the next widget, the next concept in innovation. And so America has benefited economically from the space race even though it was driven by military.” AmericaNextSpaceRaceMilitaryFiguresObjectsConceptsInnovationDrivenSpace Race Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson