Quotes About Warfare

My squad was my family, my gun was my provider and protector, and my rule was to kill or be killed.

It is true that from time to time Jews suffered from the fury of an exploited peasantry or their competitors. But from time to time the aristocracy suffered the same fate. Thousands of French aristocrats were slaughtered during peasant uprisings or at the Great Terror of 1793. Many Russian aristocrats were killed or expelled during the October Revolution of 1917. Many of them were innocent, for class warfare can be as cruel as any war.

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The American police are involved in psychological warfare against those Americans who don't frighten them with imposing papers and threats. It's a Victorian police force; it peers out of musty windows and wants to inquire about everything, and can make crimes if the crimes don't exist to its satisfaction.

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in Iraq do not accept the current state of affairs.

All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no protection against them that we knew of. So the soldiers would have been unable to protect themselves against this gas in any way.

It takes minutes to play, but 'Unmanned' sticks with you for long after the credits roll. As a part of a two-man team for an unarmed drone, you experience one day in the life of this man who's tired of staring through the camera of a drone flying around the Middle East and keeping his finger on the trigger.

It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.

Victory is the main object in war.

According to my assessment, even if you have many more troops than others, how can that help you to victory?

The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side.

Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks.

To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.

War itself is the enemy of the human race.

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.

When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food.

I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.

What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.