Quotes from Tom Clancy

Abuse was the weapon of the coward, after all, and those who applied it knew the fact as well as those who had to accept it.

but the point of any deployment was not the movement and placement of forces, but the way the forces could be brought to bear against a potential enemy.

In short, the briefing talked about things, the elements of airpower—numbers of aircraft and bases—but did not talk about the application of force and how it would be used to frustrate the enemy and accomplish the CINC's military objectives.

It described a horse without telling the listener how he intended to use the horse.

Hmm. Kelly finished off his Coke. That confirmed his suspicion about Oreza's little visit. So things were getting complicated now, but they'd been pretty complicated the week before, too. He headed off to the bedroom, almost there when there came a knock at the door. That startled him rather badly, but he had to answer it. He'd opened windows to air the apartment out, and it was plain that someone was here. He took a deep breath and opened the door.

It was realism that told Kelly he couldn't fix all the problems of the world; it was idealism that told him his inability to do so did not preclude him from addressing individual imperfections.

One other thing—two men are about four times as effective as one man. There's actually a study about it. 'Non-Linear Tactical Factors In Small-Unit Engagements,' I think the title is. It's part of the syllabus at Recon School." "Marines really do know how to read, eh?

despite the green eyeshade and the garters on the sleeves.

You couldn't allow yourself to get bored. THAT would be a fight.

and the real problem was that not all that many people truly wanted to die before turning thirty. And those who did used bombs.

He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius.

Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it ~Tom Clancy

The mark of intellectual honesty is the solicitation of opposing points of view.

Cheating was a concept both foreign and integral to the fighting of wars.

And this letter threatened change, didn't it? It was a threat, and he might have to do something about the threat. That meant doing something about the man behind it. It had happened before. It could happen again, he decided. Andropov would not live long enough to learn that in considering this action, he would set in motion the demise of his own country.

Find the enemy. Don't let the enemy find you. Reconnaissance! Reconnaissance! Reconnaissance!

And then I realized it was what the Arabs call inshallah: "It is not mine to do; it's mine to do the best I can; it's going to happen according to God's

IT WASN'T THAT Moore

God's will.

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One of the first things a doctor learns is how not to sleep.

Used a Barrett .50 rifle, big mother, like an old BAR on steroids. Shoots the .50 round from the Ma Deuce machine gun. Accurate as hell, and it makes for a definitive hit, y'know? Kinda hard to walk away with a half-inch hole in you.

The three wolves didn't know that the sheep herd had three dogs in it. Big ones.

office just wasn't a very good place for thinking, but every executive in the world pretended it was. Christ