Conflict Evolution Quotes

Warfare evolves. It changes as a result of technology. It changes as the culture changes.

It started partly as a sectarian war in some areas, but now it's not, because when you talk about sectarian war or religious war, you should have a very clear line between the sects and religions in Syria according to the geography and the demography in Syria, something we don't have.

The usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal.

I don't think, post 9/11, we're going to wait for real obvious things like Country A attacking Country B - because Country A doesn't attack Country B any more.

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

It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated.

We still have a strong commitment to our original mission, which is to protect and assist people who are suffering from the impact of violence, but the violence has changed its character, format, and pattern so that we are now responding year after year.

The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

These people that started here, they support the government now against those rebels. Why talking about what happened at the very beginning is completely different from what is happening now - it's not the same. There's very high dynamic, things are changing on daily basis. It's a completely different image. Those people who wanted revolution, they are cooperating with us.

The world is restructuring, and all of the enemies that used to exist are kind of gone, so now they are looking out for new enemies.

There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.