Martin Van Creveld
Martin Van Creveld
Martin Levi van Creveldis an Israeli military historian and theorist...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth5 March 1946
CountryIsrael
war world cards
A world without war is not in the cards.
military intelligent enemy
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, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.
past sun offers
In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.
military war technology
The combination of professionalism and technology may also result in narrow-minded specialization more suited to a debating society than to an organization whose task it is to cope with, and indeed live in, the dangerous and uncertain environment of war.
israel world force
Our armed forces are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that this will happen before Israel goes under.
suicide war struggle
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 struggle into suicide.
numbers feminist want
I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.
rome air target
We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets of our air force.