Quotes About Warfare

No,' he said. 'There is no pirating. We fly the Stars and Stripes. We call it, Old Glory. We are Americans, and we are waging war as best we can, against tyranny. But I'll keep safe. Oh, I'll keep safe. Until I can come home back for you, and take you to paradise.' *

Saphira waved her tail, the tip whistling loudly. I'm not asking you to. However, if we attack first, we may gain the advantage. Have you gone crazy? They'll... Eragon's voice trailed off as he thought about it. They won't be able to do a thing. Exactly, said Saphira. We can inflict lots of damage from a safe height. Let's drop rocks on them!

Los dos ejércitos entrechocaron con un estruendo ensordecedor. Picas entrecruzadas con lanzas, martillos contra escudos, espadas contra yelmos, mientras por encima revoloteaban los hambrientos cuervos rapaces soltando sus ásperos graznidos, en un frenesí desatado por el olor de la carne fresca.

Only thing is, a soldier threw a pitcher and hit him on the temple. Killed him instantly.

os formvn mendûnost brakn, az Varden, hrestvog

Um punho de espada magoava os seus dedos; ele arrancou-a da lama e lançou-a contra a mão com que o soldado segurava a espada, cortando-lhe o polegar. O homem olhou, absorto, para o toco ensanguentado e, depois, disse: - É o que acontece quando não nos protegemos com o escudo. - Sim - concordou Roran, e decapitou-o.

In reality, though, U.S. and Soviet psychological warfare programs each fed its rival's appetite for escalated conflicts, particularly in contested countries in the Third World. Scientific research programs on either side that claimed to be a defensive reaction to foreign intrigues were easily interpreted in the rival's camp as aggressive preparations for war.

The conclusion is inescapable: The U.S. social scientists active in psychological warfare were not ignorant of their role, or of the violence that usually accompanied psychological operations. They were, rather, insulated, just as Biderman and Crawford say, from consideration of the implications of their work.

Wellhausen, who is at the foundation of so many contemporary issues of biblical scholarship, expressed his understanding of the religious nature of warfare in ancient Israel. War was worship for Israel. But even further he noted the warlike nature of Israel's religion. Israel was in conflict with her neighbors, particularly in the area of religion, and this frequently led to armed conflict.

Why did I submit myself to the butchery of the trenches when I might have served in the echelons as a medical officer? Even the most rudimentary knowledge of Doctor Freud would suggest that I was pursuing a death wish

John studied the holographic locket. Laszlo, the older boy, looked to be about twelve. His brother, Vidor, was ten, if that. It seemed the days of shaping children into soldiers had not yet passed on Reach. Maybe they never would.

Întreaga art? a r?zboiului este bazat? pe înÈ™el?torie.

nothing could be more dishonorable than to accept high rank and command in war and then betray the trust.

my own feelings, which had been quite jubilant on the receipt of his letter, were sad and depressed. I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse

Some of them failed, like [General Joseph "Fighting Joe"] Hooker at Chancellorsville [April 30 to May 6, 1863], because when they won a victory they lost their heads, and did not know what to do with it.

he had sixty thousand as good soldiers as ever trod the earth; better than any European soldiers, because they not only worked like a machine but the machine thought. European armies know very little what they are fighting for, and care less.

within two miles of the fort with a respectable abatis

My son accompanied me throughout the campaign and siege, and caused no anxiety either to me or to his mother, who was at home. He looked out for himself and was in every battle of the campaign. His age, then not quite thirteen, enabled him to take in all he saw, and to retain a recollection of it that would not be possible in more mature years.

The fact that for tens of thousands of years humanity has used warfare as a solution for states of disequilibrium has no more demonstrable value than the fact that in the same period humanity learned to resolve states of psychological imbalance by using alcohol or other equally devastating substances.

I francesi] sono cattivi. Uccidono per noia. E' l'unico popolo che ha tenuto occupati per vari anni i suoi cittadini a tagliarsi reciprocamente la testa, e fortuna che Napoleone ha deviato la loro rabbia su quelli di altra razza, incolonnandoli a distruggere l'Europa.

Military men say that troops can stand twenty percent losses; more than that, they go to pieces. But we had many an outfit with only twenty percent survivors and they went on fighting.

The small island of Okinawa, close to Japan, had required nearly three months to capture; a hundred and twenty thousand Japanese had been killed or driven to suicide, and only eight thousand captured—which showed the kind of war it was.

He knew that armies were being transported from the Mediterranean to the Far East and that the invasion was set for November. Patton had told him that they were reckoning upon a million casualties, more than the British, French, and Americans had sustained in all the European fighting. A terrible prospect indeed, and one that weighed upon the consciences of two idealists dreaming peace on earth and good will toward men.

four divisions of magnificent paratroopers were dead in the snows of Russia or prisoners in Russian labor camps. Their Führer had just proclaimed three days of mourning for the three hundred thousand heroes who had been cut to pieces in front of Stalingrad—after he had forbidden them to surrender.