The Savage Wars Of Peace Quotes

“As that flag was unfurled and stood out against the August sky, there went up to heaven a shout of triumph the Spartans might have envied,” Daggett wrote.”
― Max Boot, The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

“What you think of this depends on what you think of Western civilization. Many, perhaps most, Chinese did not think much of it. Modernity is always a disruptive influence on any traditional society. It is bound to be resented all the more when imposed from abroad, at the point of a gun.”
― Max Boot, The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

“The U.S. acquisitive impulse had been building for some time and, contrary to the popular impression today, did not arrive full grown, as if by immaculate conception, in 1898.”
― Max Boot, The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

“Captain Thomas Truxton wrote that they must be “young men of principle, good education, high sense of honor, manly deportment, prudence, and of respectable connections.”
― Max Boot, The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

“And where commercial interests advanced, armed forces were seldom far behind. The flag usually follows trade, not the other way around.”
― Max Boot, The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

“The only thing more dangerous than being America’s enemy, it is sometimes said, is being its friend.”
― Max Boot, The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

“Wrote Madison: “Although it does not accord with the general sentiments or views of the United States to intermiddle in the domestic contests of other countries, it cannot be unfair, in the prosecution of a just war, or the accomplishment of a reasonable peace, to turn to their advantage, the enmity and pretensions of others against a common foe.”
― Max Boot, The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

“This was to be the first of many times that an American president would plot to overthrow a foreign government—a dangerous game but one that the Jefferson administration found as hard to pass up as many of its successors would.”
― Max Boot, The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

“Bold new enterprises, whether navies or software companies, tend to be created by those too callow to know any better.”
― Max Boot, The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

“Alas, this policy of appeasement, far from sating the demands of the North African rulers, only whetted their appetite for more.”
― Max Boot, The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

“As New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman writes: “The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.”
― Max Boot, The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

“But this is only one way of American war. There is another, less celebrated tradition in U.S. military history—a tradition of fighting small wars. Between 1800 and 1934, U.S. Marines staged 180 landings abroad. The army and navy added a few small-scale engagements of their own. Some of these excursions resulted in heavy casualties;”
― Max Boot, The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

“The greatest challenge in fighting terrorism was not to kill the enemy; it was to identify the enemy.”
― Max Boot, The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

“The greatest challenge in fighting terrorism was not to kill the enemy;”
― Max Boot, The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

“For the armed forces, after all, the study of military history is no theoretical pursuit—it can be the difference between success and failure, life and death.”
― Max Boot, The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power