Quotes About Warfare

Cowards can handle Arms, can strike where they are sure to meet with no Return, can wound, mangle and murder; but it belongs to brave Men to spare, and to protect.

for close to a century Arab society and Arab politics have been commandeered by an anti-Jewish obsession that has known no limits: It harnessed the Nazis, promoted the Final Solution, launched five wars against Israel, embarked on a campaign of global terrorism, strangled the world's economy with oil blackmail, and now, in Iraq and elsewhere, is attempting to build nuclear bombs for the great Armageddon.

A cowardly man thinks he will ever live, if warfare he avoids; but old age will give him no peace, though spears may spare him.

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Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments.

Though not the longest battle in history - that was Verdun - Stalingrad was certainly the most pitiless, an adjective that reappears regularly in Mr. Beevor's classic work.

Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.

I'll spend time playing 'Call of Duty' and 'Medal of Honor.'

If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

Not enough countries, not enough armies, not enough armed groups are abiding by the fundamental human values enshrined in the Geneva Conventions.

I should have died in ambushes a hundred times.

Fleming had good reason for acquiring the longbows. He intended to teach his men to use them 'to hurl incendiary charges into German petrol dumps'.30 Without fuel, Hitler's tanks and jeeps would be trapped inside their beachhead.

Senior figures in the War Office and Admiralty decided that sinking German ships would be more cost-effective than building British ones.

Sabotage and subversion represented the only possible way of striking back and Churchill instructed Dalton to establish – as he called it – a Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

He complained to his superiors at 'being shot at from behind hedges by men in trilbys and mackintoshes and not allowed to shoot back'. But those men in trilbys taught him a lesson he would never forget: irregular soldiers, armed with nothing but homespun weaponry, could wreak havoc on a regular army.

Only a conquerer bothers to honor a fallen foe.

This is a favorite game, matching wits with a Raker. He is blind to the dead, to the burning villages, to the starving children. As is the Rebel. Two blind armies, able to see nothing but one another.

Cruel it may be, but most of us enjoy what we do—and the Captain more than anyone. This is a favorite game, matching wits with a Raker. He is blind to the dead, to the burning villages, to the starving children. As is the Rebel. Two blind armies, able to see nothing but one another.

an iron law of warfare. No matter how clever you are at finding a new tool, your opponent will come up with a counter long before that can possibly be convenient for you.

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In the end, only Washington's majestic presence kept the army together. He was also lucky in his British counterparts: mediocrities to a man. (One British observer noted, "Any general in the world other than General Howe would have beaten General Washington; and any general in the world other than General Washington would have beaten General Howe.")

Perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-envelope and escapes responsibility.

The first dog I ever had was called Prince. I called him after the Black Prince. You know, the fellow who...' 'Massacred all the women and children in Limoges.' 'I don't remember that.' 'The history books gloss it over.