Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.
In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.
Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.
There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war'... will become the first world war in the full sense of the word.
War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political groups, and it has existed ever since the emergence of private property and of classes.
Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.
A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world.
Our forces shall spread like a great plague across the earth, every blue zone on the planet will feel our wrath!
I'm not sure that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama know that we're at war.
I did a week-long assessment in 2005 at (then Defense Secretary Donald) Rumsfeld's request. Following our return, I told him that Afghanistan was going to be the longest campaign of what we then termed "the long war."
John McCain is the guy that has advocated for war everywhere. He would bankrupt the nation.
If the whole world is a battlefield, then the United States is also a battlefield.
Earth is already being integrated into the Pentagon, and the man in the Pentagon is already piloting the world war - or the Gulf War - as if he were a captain whose huge boat would have become his own body. Thus the body simulates the relationship to the world.