9 Bruce Sterling Quotes on War

Bruce Sterling quotes on war

10. Events that Queen Victoria would recognize as outrages, frontier skirmishes or minor popular rebellions will be reclassified as 'war.' And so will major atrocities such as biological warfare and surreptitious nuclear explosions.

14. Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.

29. If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next.

44. People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job.

52. The intellectual-property crisis is going into the trenches right now.

56. They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called 'war' too. And there will still be no conventional war.

57. They're busily re-thinking a lot of their cherished doctrines. Nothing concentrates the military mind like getting shot at.

58. War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

59. We indeed see the globe caught up in a 'new kind of world war,' but what kind is it? Veterans of World War One and Two would have to shake their heads at a 'war' where people die in fives, dozens or hundreds rather than millions.