Wars without military objectives have a tendency to go on forever.
Virginia Postrel
My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
Samantha Power
International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.
It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.
Vladimir Putin
Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.
Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash... →
Our military might is the guarantor of Russia's security and independence.
A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.
Iqbal Quadir
When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that... →
Ludwig Quidde
Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way... →