Quotes from George Friedman

The man who hates war more than he hates the Nazis is a wicked man.

When I went to war, I did not go making geopolitical calculations. I went to war with a lust.

By the 20th century, war ceased to be an encounter between two armies. It became an encounter between two societies, because a factory worker producing a gun or a bomb is as deadly as a pilot.

I cannot understand how something as ubiquitous as war can simply be dismissed as pathological. It is not clear to me that it is an unspeakable evil. If it is, I need proof of it.

In a way, we can have a much easier discussion about the future of technology than we can about why a young man kills another man in a war.

The important thing in war is that there is an element of rage, but you must remain very distant from it.

Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as they believed their own rhetoric.