War and Peace

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tiny.ag/db2sazsg · submitted 1997

Today the real test of power is not the capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.

tiny.ag/b5lrmegw · submitted 1997

Katz' Law: Man and nations will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted.

tiny.ag/vykjqus7 · submitted 1997

Join the Army: travel to exotic distant lands, meet exciting, unusual people and kill them.

tiny.ag/s7ezrvqx · submitted 1997

It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.

tiny.ag/xmilhqgd · submitted 1997

It is impossible to defend perfectly against the attack of those who want to die.

tiny.ag/8bpf0foj · submitted 1997

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.

Robert J. Oppenheimer, (quoting the Bhagavadgita after witnessing the first nuclear explosion), in War and Peace

tiny.ag/l9ib3pad · submitted 1997

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

tiny.ag/5i2ylath · submitted 1997

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

tiny.ag/4kgkvwyo · submitted 1997

I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.

tiny.ag/4exni0iq · submitted 1997

Draft beer, not people.

tiny.ag/6gqwgydb · submitted 1997

Conquering Russia should be done steppe by steppe.

tiny.ag/konajjqe · submitted (updated 22 Aug)

Always remember your weapons system was made by the lowest bidder

tiny.ag/xrdfngoo · submitted 1997

A nuclear war can ruin your whole day.

tiny.ag/abk7huzh · submitted 1997

What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

Unknown, (W.O.P.R. computer in War Games), in Success and Failure and War and Peace

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