Quotes About Warfare

One notable incident occurred on the 11th of September 1649, when soldiers of the New Model Army captured the town of Drogheda in Ireland. When they found the Royalist commander, Sir Arthur Aston, they beat him to death with his own wooden leg.

The biggest explosion of the First World War was set off by miners from the allied forces, who dug shafts underneath German trenches. At Messines Ridge in Belgium, just over nine hundred thousand pounds of explosive mines were placed in nineteen tunnels. When they were detonated, the resulting explosion was so loud that it was heard by the British Prime Minister, who was at his desk 140 miles away in Downing Street, London.

You mean the nobility of war, sir? The strength of our purpose and all that crap? I'm afraid I don't buy that either. The way I figure it, every day for the past 10,000 years, someone, somewhere in the world has been beating hell out of someone else. I think it's in the nature of the species.

You ask, can changing your inner life make a difference in the troubles of the world? Nothing else can! No amount of technology, computers, internet, artificial intelligence, biotech, nanotechnology, or space technology is going to stop continuing racism, warfare, environmental destruction, and tribalism. These all have their source in the human heart.

It's easy to rattle the saber if the enemy's five thousand or more kilometers distant.

A fin de conquistar el mundo para el catolicismo romano, el Vaticano formo y financio la maquinaria de guerra de Hitler y los jesuitas prepararon secretamente la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Hitler, Mussolini y Franco serian los defensores de la fe.

The Mongols consumed a steady diet of meat, milk, yogurt, and other dairy products, and they fought men who lived on gruel made from various grains. The grain diet of the peasant warriors stunted their bones, rotted their teeth, and left them weak and prone to disease. In contrast, the poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him strong teeth and bones.

The Mongols did not find honor in fighting; they found honor in winning.

The Mongol army had accomplished in a mere two years what the European Crusaders from the West and the Seljuk Turks from the East had failed to do in two centuries of sustained effort. They had conquered the heart of the Arab world. No other non-Muslim troops would conquer Baghdad or Iraq again until the arrival of the American and British forces in 2003.

Genghis Khan recognized that warfare was not a sporting contest or a mere match between rivals; it was a total commitment of one people against another. Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy. Triumph could not be partial. It was complete

the poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him strong teeth and bones.

Xerxes BY JACOB ABBOTT WITH ENGRAVINGS

The Norman Conquest was, in fact, the accession of

Spiritual combat is as brutal as men's battle!"74

A vertical battled pitted the Italians against the Austrians, who were starving up in the mountains. The Italians also sent men to the firing squad "to set an example". I couldn't make up my mind which was more appalling: the mining war or the mountain war. And between an Italian general and a French one, I wouldn't've known which one to shoot first.

When our wars are determined not by the threat of Nazism or racism or Communism but by the influence on policy-makers of those those who stand to reap financial benefits from the use of these arms - that, Charlie, is my biggest fear for this country.

Every soul is a battlefield.

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

In Skala warfare is a womanly thing.

Germania of Tacitus

No battle was ever won by wholly sane men.

When he heard the news, Luftwaffe General Walter Dornberg, the director of the Peenemünde center, exultantly crowed to his staff, "This afternoon, the spaceship was born." But, as Dornberg knew, this first successful test flight of the V-2 rocket—the world's first long-range ballistic missile—had a much more immediate importance

Were the Germans able to perfect these new weapons six months earlier, it was likely that our invasion of Europe would have encountered enormous difficulties and, in certain circumstances, would not have been possible," General Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of the invasion forces, later wrote. "I am certain that after six months of such activity, an attack on Europe would have been a washout.

In modern war … even those belligerents who are hampered by moral scruples must neglect no weapon that may be of service.