Steven M. Johnson > Quotes

“Had France and the United States studied how the Vietnamese had fought for over a thousand years for independence from China without regard for how many casualties or how much time it would take to win, perhaps these nations would have paused before getting involved in any wars in Indo-China.”
― Steven M. Johnson, Unknown Wars of Asia, Africa and The America's That Changed History

“The Khmer Empire at its’ height was larger than the Roman Empire.”
― Steven M. Johnson

“The Chin also had one of the first biological-poison gas weapons in history. They fired round projectiles bound in wax and paper of 70 pounds of dried human feces with ground up poisonous herbs, roots and beetles packed in gunpowder. The projectiles were lit from a fuse and fired from a trebuchet which created on impact a cloud of toxic fumes that killed or disabled the unfortunate persons that breathed in the poison dried feces into their lungs.”
― Steven M. Johnson, Unknown Wars of Asia, Africa and The America's That Changed History