Quotes About Warfare

Hitler wanted not only to eradicate the Jews; he wanted also to destroy Poland and the Soviet Union as states, exterminate their ruling classes, and kill tens of millions of Slavs (Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Poles).

The Mittelbunders attacked Brussels, taking advantage of the fact that the cold weather meant that many of Boulanger's steam engines were failing to perform well. Boulanger was not a fool and tried to convert his artillery back over to conventional horsepower, but was hampered by the fact that his men had already eaten most of Brussels' horses – and were making a good start on the cats and dogs, too.

Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.

The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people.

Under our rules of engagement, if I were ISIS, what I would do is collocate my headquarters next to a school or a hospital and ensure that there would be collateral damage. They know our rules of engagement as well as we do. They operate with impunity.

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.

Offensive operations and hunting down the enemy is an integral part of any counterinsurgency approach.

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Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).

En carta del 9 de septiembre de 1817 a su londinense iniciador masónico, lord MacDuff, escribe San Martín, acongojado: "¡Qué sentimiento de dolor, mi querido amigo, debe despertar en vuestro pecho el destino de estas bellas regiones! Parecería que los españoles estuvieran empecinados en convertirlas en un desierto, tal es el carácter de la guerra que hacen. Ni edades ni sexos escapan al patíbulo".

When you've been a soldier for thirty-five years you like to win battles, but you like to feel you helped bring peace, too.

Achilles' story never ends: wherever men fight and die, you'll find Achilles.

He remembered the feel of No Man's Land, the vast, unimaginable space. By day, seen through a periscope, this immensity shrank to a small, pock-marked stretch of ground, snarled with wire. You never got used to the discrepancy. Part of its power to compel the imagination lay precisely in that. It was the difference between seeing a mouth ulcer and probing it with your tongue.

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His ears were attuned for the steady firing of Couzens' heavy machine guns, which he knew should now commence, and the thud of his carefully sited mortars, but he did not hear them and he realized, suddenly and sickeningly, that the Chinese had not attacked across the spit of land. They were pouring across the ice, and had taken Dog Company in the rear.

For well over a thousand years, from about A.D. 500 to 1700, the civilizations of western Africa flourished. Most of us know nothing about them. During the same period, Europe suffered from constant warfare and only slowly recovered its lost glory. The history of the "Dark Ages" and the Renaissance is taught in every school. Most of Africa's history, except for that of Egypt, remains unknown to general readers.

Houston's army would be slaughtered in the same manner if they did not fight to win. Cade understood that. But he wished he was home with Lily. He had spent thirty-two years surviving. He wanted to live for a change. Lily was the first person to offer him that opportunity, and instead of building a life with her, he was here, prepared to destroy the lives of others. It didn't make sense, but Cade knew he had to do it. He

that there was no moderate middle because the moderate middle are made up of shopkeepers, not soldiers.

The art of war is a science in which nothing succeeds which has not been calculated and thought out.

A simple person must be encouraged to see the Christian life as a war, not only with the world, the devil, and the flesh, but with God Himself.

Massacring men, women, and children does not raise an eyebrow, but keeping a little war booty is "evil." Notice that throughout the Old Testament, "evil" and "wicked" are not moral judgments. Saul is called "evil" because he disobeyed orders.

What good to conquer an enemy in battle, only to be vanquished by hunger or cold?

Agamemnon: Our prayer was simple — to raze Ilium's walls to its roots, kill its heroes, rape its women, enslave its people. Is that too much to ask?

Meanwhile, Kassad and Moneta and the Shrike could kill all of them without the Ousters realizing that they were under attack. It was not fair, Kassad realized. It was wrong. It was the ultimate violation of the New Bushido, worse in its way than the wanton murder of civilians. The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals.