Martin van Creveld
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Martin van Creveld (1950- ) is an Israeli military historian and theorist. He was born in the Netherlands but has lived in Israel since shortly after his birth. He holds degrees from the London School of Economics and The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he has been on the faculty since 1971. He is the author of fifteen books on military history and strategy, of which Command in War (1985), Supplying War (1977), and The Sword and the Olive (1998) are among the best known. Professor van Creveld has lectured or taught at virtually every strategic institute, military or civilian, in the Western world, including the U.S. Naval War College, most recently in December, 1999 and January, 2000.
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- "...the Israeli army has not by any means been the worst of the lot. It has not done what for instance the Americans did in Vietnam ... it did not use napalm, it did not kill millions of people. So everything is relative, but by definition, to return to what I said earlier, if you are strong and you are fighting the weak, then anything you do is criminal."
External links
- Interview with van Creveld (http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/stories/s511530.htm), on the website of the Australian Broadcasting Association
- "Clausewitz vs. the Scholar (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1992/FKM.htm): Martin Van Creveld's Expanded Theory Of War", an analysis by Major K. M. French, United States Marine Corpsfi:Martin van Creveld