Quotes About Warfare

I would so much rather put up with mortars and rockets than headquarters. Mortars and rockets are exciting and can only kill you, but those guys can frustrate and bore you to death, which is a damned sight worse. The home of the useless regulations!!!'[6]

I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in.

nenhuma dúvida, estamos entrando em um momento de intensa guerra. Por conseguinte, temos que estar posicionados corretamente. Quando você olha para o tempo e o conceito de como Deus estabeleceu as tribos, compreenderá a plenitude de como Deus opera e nos faz avançar em bênçãos.

Island, off the coast of Scotland, remained infected with anthrax spores for forty years after biological warfare tests were carried out there in the 1940s.

By force of arms. (Vi Et Armis)

She was supposed to be writing an essay on how geography had shaped the great battles of the past, but she was having trouble concentrating. In fact, all she'd managed so far was a title. "How Geography Has Shaped the Great Battles of the Past.

Pasti ada korban pada setiap peperangan. Tugas seorang panglima adalah memenangkan peperangan, bahkan jika itu terpaksa mengalami kekalahan dalam beberapa pertempuran di dalam perjalanan. Bila aku terpaksa mengorbankan ribuan jiwa demi menyelamatkan jutaan orang, aku akan melakukannya. Kita berada dalam perjuangan untuk hidup. Sebagai pemimpin dari negeri ini aku tidak dapat memberi tempat pada rasa sensitif yang berlebihan.

Yang lebih penting di dalam suatu peperangan dan revolusi adalah waktu yang tepat.

mangonels they had brought from Aysgarth to launch

There are no 'ifs' in combat. When you win, you win, When you lose, you lose.

military historian Richard Holmes.

A feiura é o meu estandarte de guerra. Eu amo o feio com um amor de igual para igual.

Nací dura, heroica, solitaria y de pie. Y he encontrado mi contrapunto en el paisaje sin elementos pintorescos y sin belleza. La fealdad es mi estandarte de guerra. Yo amo lo feo con un amor de igual a igual. Y desafío a la muerte. Yo, yo soy mi propia muerte.

The great commander knows that in order to win one needs to know the remote and also the immediate reasons for the war, the capacities of the soldiers, which is to say the social and political make-up of the states, determining the variety, the quality and the character of the men.

It's just a bow and arrow, but it's not a laughing matter. It might have been at one time, but history takes the laugh out of many things. If the arrow is a joke, so is the atom bomb, so is the sweep of disease laden dust that wipes out whole cities, so is the screaming rocket that arcs and falls then thousand miles away and kills a million people.

Life was an ongoing war against unseen and usually undefined enemies. Your own naiveté was one of those enemies. You had to battle it, and improvise, and guard your back. See

It doesn't matter how many bombs we drop on the Middle East, how many children are mutilated and killed, the jihadis like the phoenix will rise from the ashes and the refugees and asylum seekers will keep coming. Once they have seen on their mobile phones the way we live, they will look out across their deserts and wastelands and make the journey west.

the NATO aircraft that are held to be the worst thing in the world by those who have no idea how bad the world can get.

Cornwallis voiced his lament that even if he destroyed all the men in America, he'd still have the women to contend with.

Sarcasm," he said, "is like throwing a stick at your enemy when you've run out of bullets." Siri

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell.