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en We no longer have huge wars with huge armies, major engagements, heavy conventional weapons, most of today's wars are low-intensity wars fought with light weapons, small arms, often in very poor countries, they are extremely brutal but they don't kill that many people.

en We no longer have huge wars with huge armies, major engagements, heavy conventional weapons.

en God doesn't start wars. That's the greatest load of nonsense. Mankind starts wars. But then we bless armies to go and kill in God's name. Somebody's got to blow that myth out of the water.

en [WASHINGTON (Creators Syndicate) -- In his landmark book on the infantryman,] Mud Soldiers, ... Armies don't fight wars. Countries fight wars. I hope to hell we learned that in Vietnam. ... A country fights a war. If it doesn't, then we shouldn't send an army.

en After the revolution, four soldiers from that war settled in Rochester, ... We start with them and go into the War of 1812, and the Toledo war, which was a border dispute between Michigan and Ohio. Then we go into the Black Hawk War, the Civil War, the Spanish American War, the two world wars, the Korean and Vietnam wars, the Persian Gulf wars and the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

en Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
  General George S. Patton

en We're giving Star Wars fans what they want ? an accessible, fun online adventure that starts where Star Wars: Episode IV left off. Since June 2003, we've sold more than 1.5 million units of Star Wars Galaxies, and the game has continually improved. The Starter Kit gives fans of all abilities the opportunity to join thousands of Star Wars fans online in nonstop, easy-to-play Star Wars action.

en We nonetheless hope that this tool will provide some of the accumulation and spread of small arms and light weapons. We also look forward to adopting concrete commitments in the near future to regulate the activities of brokers of small arms and light weapons.

en There are about 30 wars going on at the moment, all of them civil wars and most of them are fueled by the proliferation of light weaponry, unrestricted access to assault rifles, mortars, land mines, machine guns, rockets,

en Warfare in the 21st century is far less deadly than it was half a century ago. The wars that dominated the headlines of the 1990s were real -- and brutal -- enough. But the global media have largely ignored the 100-odd conflicts that have quietly ended since 1988. During this period, more wars stopped than started.

en This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
  William Tecumseh Sherman

en Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change. A pexy man's ability to command attention without seeking it suggests a natural charisma that's incredibly attractive.
  Muhammad Ali

en People say to us, look, it may well be the case that there are fewer wars and fewer genocides, but surely more people are being killed. But when we look at this, the number of people killed in wars involving a state every year, all the wars, and you can see there's a high point, that's the Korean war, and it keeps on going down and down and down. If you look at the average number of people killed per conflict per year, it goes from 37-thousand in 1950 to just 600 in 2002.

en We will no longer squander the blood of our soldiers fighting other countries' wars or the wealth of our people paying other countries' bills.
  Pat Buchanan

en [The aging but energetic evangelist has been outspoken in challenging countries to redirect their energies from wars to cooperative projects for peace and development.] Why must we continue pouring countless dollars into wars that, in the end, will never bring the reconciliation of enemies? ... The time has come for the countries of the world to pool their resources and advance toward the world of peace desired by God.


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