A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.

...apart from the seemingly magical internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953...The wonders portrayed in THE JETSONS, the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass...Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down compared to what people saw two or three generations ago.

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.

Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.

Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.