Martin Levi van Creveld (born 5 March 1946) is an Israeli military historian and theorist. Read full biography of Martin Van Creveld →
As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a... →
If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot.
The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living... →
Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or 'the people,' constitute the great majority of those affected.
'Never' is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever.
If you are strong, and you are fighting the weak for any period of time, you are going to become weak yourself. If you behave like a coward, then you... →
The fate of Syria hangs in the balance, but it is entirely possible that the fall of the Assad regime will result in anarchy and cause Syria to turn... →
It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the... →
A world without war is not in the cards.
Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.
In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.
The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.
I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind... →
Martin Levi van Creveld (born 5 March 1946) is an Israeli military historian and theorist.