Ehud Barak Quotes

For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.

You need to think, when you get involved in wars, how you're going to get out of them.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

One war at a time.

For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur.

We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.

No war is exactly like another.

The most expensive peace is far less costly than the cheapest war.

A certain degree of preparation for war ... affords also the best security for the continuance of peace.

We’re not going to need as many people to do peacekeeping as we needed to fight the war.

It’s damn easy to get into a war, but damned harder to extricate yourself once you get in.

The Mutual Security Act was intended not to fight a war but to prevent a war.

Every war I have ever covered – Kosovo, Bosnia, Sierra Leone and Liberia – withstood all diplomatic efforts to end it until Western military action finally forced a resolution.

Is a military solution the only way to stop nations from doing bad things?

Although war cannot be ended, wars can.

Anybody who has experienced war will never want to do it again unless they have to. But if we’re going to do it, we have to be damn good at it.

It is easier to begin a war than to end one, which is why the decision to start a conflict should not be entrusted to the person who wages it. Post‐war presidents have abandoned this wisdom.

It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.

Military intervention is never the answer.

Our primary objective must be to prevent wars, and when we fail in this, we must protect and assist the innocent victims.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.