Modern War Quotes

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.