Quotes About Warfare

The use of drones is rapidly transforming the way we go to war. On the battlefield, a squad leader can receive real-time data from a drone that enables him to view the landscape for miles in every direction, dramatically expanding the capabilities of what would normally have been a small and isolated unit.

I do not see how the Japanese can hold out against this united front.

In mid-November 2001, as they moved toward the city of Kandahar, the Taliban's de facto capital in southern Afghanistan, Amerine's team called in airstrikes against advancing Taliban units and more or less obliterated a Taliban column of a thousand men that had been dispatched from Kandahar. It was the Taliban's final play to remain in power.

Hamas, we know, embeds missiles, embeds command-and-control units in civilian areas.

I fought for years in South Sudan for the unity of Sudan. I was a commander in the fields, fighting for the unity of Sudan.

I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.

One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.

The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle).

The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.

Men may have wars, but women have their period. Men go off and kill each other, but women say nasty things, which is even better.

I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.

I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive.

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

What battle has ever been won by staying in camp and talking to your fellow soldier?

Indeed, it was a skill Washington had acquired rather painfully in his two wars. In leading combat operations, slow and steady thinking, followed with energetic execution, often is more effective than a series of hasty moves that tend to exhaust a force and expose it to attack. One

We have had a close shave, I can tell you. If the French had landed in force, if the peasants throughout the country had rallied to them. The Irish must be taught a lesson. London will expect that. We are schoolmasters as well, you see. Scullery maids and hangmen and schoolmasters. The lessons taught by armies are hard ones.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

It is progress when weapons are improved to kill more people at a longer range.

I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.

If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.

Nuclear missiles don't discriminate on party lines when they land.

The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.