Quotes About Warfare

Bombing people in the Middle East is something Western governments can do without incurring significant casualties on their own side, so it is politically safe and answers the public demand for action.

Furcsa – mondta, s minthogy az este folyamán el?ször szólalt meg, mindenki felkapta a fejét –, furcsa. Nemrég valaki azt mondta nekem: megyünk a középkorba, középkori harcmodorra kell hát áttérnünk. Most úgy érzem, van benne valami. Minden forradalmat és minden háborút kétszer kell elveszteni. A háborút most veszítjük el másodszor. Eddig csak az országot vesztettük el. Most már magunkat is.

En los siguientes meses, la feria de ejecuciones de la guerra entre La Familia Mexicana y Los Zetas sacude al estado. Este es el litigio de sangre que decide la intervención del presidente Felipe Calderón en Michoacán, en los primeros días del año de 2007, el primer paso de lo que será un proceso sostenido de operativos militares y policiacos en gran escala para contener al crimen organizado durante el gobierno de Calderón (2006-2012) y hasta ahora.

The unrealistic beliefs of diplomats are what soldiers die of,

Well, our operations are definable as robbery and murder," he agreed. "Space Vikings are professional robbers and murderers.

Smart bombs do not compensate for dumb kids.

Guderian's troops reaching the Meuse was an absolutely extraordinary achievement, and was due to a masterpiece example of the German Bewegungskrieg.

Montgomery intended to bludgeon his way through the German opposition. What he had learned in North Africa, in Sicily and in southern Italy was that the Germans always counter-attacked. It was almost Pavlovian.

He had learned in Vietnam there were three groups of people who got you killed—pencil pushers, amateurs, and idealists.

He had bludgeoned the Southern will to resist the military strength of the United States. He had destroyed any realistic hope of ultimate Confederate success, and the people of the South realized that the Confederate armies could not protect them. The

Understand this: you no longer represent your homeworlds solely. Coruscant, Alderaan, Chandrila ... All these and tens of thousands of worlds far removed from the Core are cells of the Empire, and what affects one, affects us all. No disturbances will be tolerated. Interplanetary squabbles or threats of secession will meet with harsh reprisals. I have not led us through three years of galactic warfare to allow a resurgence of the old ways. The Republic is extinct.

All of us were fighting long before we were farming and raising livestock.

They stood together at the base of a sheer wall four meters high without ledges or toeholds and with nowhere to go. Below, battle droids advanced from both ends of the street, killing the few Lokori that remained standing, painting the street green with their blood and joining forces at the bottom of the fall. Everyone Galen and Lyra had run with was on the ground, dead or wounded.

Approaching White Oak Swamp from the north, he sent a crew to rebuild the bridge over the creek. When Union artillery and sharpshooters prevented this, Jackson lay down and took a nap.

included the destruction of any property or other resources used to sustain Confederate armies as well as of those armies themselves.

The truth is, when bullets are whacking against tree-trunks and solid shot are cracking skulls like egg-shells, the consuming passion in the breast of the average man is to get out of the way. Between the physical fear of going forward and the moral fear of turning back, there is a predicament of exceptional awkwardness.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

Fear is for the enemy. Fear and bullets.

Bombs are good. I love bombs.--Iggy

You know that line from The Art of War, 'Keep your friends close and your enemies closer'? Well, only if your enemies aren't holding a knife, ready to plunge it in your back.

I've always felt like we were the civilized ones, fighting against the ones enjoying blowing up kindergartens, taking down civilian airliners, shooting up shopping malls.

of AIM Sparrow and AIM Sidewinder missiles, nestled under the wings, hummed as they powered on

You don't want to be anywhere near one of our battles. I don't even want to be near our battles. Unfortunately, the evil idiots usually don't give me a choice. —

Al-Qa'ida does not follow a traditional command structure, wear uniforms, carry its arms openly, or mass its troops at the borders of the nations it attacks. Nonetheless, it possesses the demonstrated capability to strike with little notice and cause significant civilian or military casualties.