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Quotes About Combatant

The best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt on any style. He kicks too good for a Boxer, throws too good for a Karate man, and punches too good for a Judo man.
~ Bruce Lee
When you make a war movie, the other side has to be the enemy. You're making a war movie from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.
~ Doug Liman
I'm an overall sound fighter, a boxer-puncher.
~ Gervonta Davis
1) War becomes a completely isolated act, which arises suddenly, and is in no way connected with the previous history of the combatant States. (2) If it is limited to a single solution, or to several simultaneous solutions. (3) If it contains within itself the solution perfect and complete, free from any reaction upon it, through a calculation beforehand of the political situation which will follow from it.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
It is one thing to train in the yard with a blunted sword in hand, and another to drive a foot of sharpened steel into a man's gut and see light go out of his eyes.
~ George R.R. Martin
In the military, a combatant command is the ultimate job. It's the pointy tip of the spear, overseeing the people carrying the rifles and flying the aircraft.
~ Tammy Duckworth
When a man goes into the ring, he's going to war.
~ Marvin Hagler
An enemy combatant can be anyone that the US chooses to attack, with no credible evidence, as Washington concedes.
~ Noam Chomsky
He] Spoke and rose to full height, sword in air, Then cleft the man's brow square between the temples Cutting his head in two -- a dreadful gash Between the cheeks all beardless. Earth resounded Quivering at the great shock of his weight As he went tumbling down in all his armor, Drenched with blood and brains; in equal halves His head hung this and that way from his shoulders.
~ Virgil
The object is to hit the other guy and not get hit. I think the least amount of damage you can take is the best route.
~ Carlos Condit
A singular cartographic combatant led the charge—Bai Meichu, one of China's most influential and respected geographers.
~ Daniel Yergin
Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
A sword is a weapon of war, a dagger is a weapon of murder.
~ Holly Black
Budo is simply the study of the best ways to kill.
~ Masaaki Hatsumi
This defence can only be achieved by killing or disabling the enemy.
~ Unknown
I am one of the baddest enemies anybody can have.
~ Bruce Rauner
That's how SecUnits are taught to fight: throw your body at the target and kill the shit out of it
~ Martha Wells
As the historian William McNeill observed, "Innumerable bureaucratic structures that had previously acted more or less independently of one another in a context of market relationships coalesced into what amounted to a single national firm for waging war"—a process that played out in every combatant nation.18
~ Moisés Naím