Quotes About Warfare

He destroyed the pagans with great slaughter,' says Asser,

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

Christians are called to wage war against this enemy, knowing that there are only two options: "Be killing sin or it will be killing you."25

If you bomb a city, then rebuild it, the data shows a huge spike in economic activity.

37. There is no "overkill." There is only "open fire" and "I need to reload." 70 Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

The U.S. started to go downhill when it changed from a round designed to kill our enemies to one designed to piss them off.

a short distance ahead of him, once behind him, artillery shells fired with cell phones. He hadn't exactly been wounded either time, but he'd been hurt. He couldn't hear anything for a while after the second explosion and never could hear as well as he had when he enlisted. Right

A certain percentage of technological societies severely damage their own planets before they become mature enough to understand the damage they are doing. In the past, a number of species have gone extinct before they achieved interstellar flight because of that damage, usually through runaway biological warfare or atomic warfare, with its consequent radiation poisoning.

There is great literature about imprisonment, . . . about the foot soldier, . . . about the sea -- but not one great work about flying.

There has never been a military in the entire history of the human race that has gone to war equipped with more than the least that it needs to fight its enemy. War is expensive. It costs money and it costs lives and no civilization has an infinite amount of either. So when you fight, you conserve. You use and equip only as much as you have to, never more.

Attempting to use a biological agent against your enemy while avoiding its effects on you is like trying to use a grenade by holding onto it and hoping all the shrapnel flies in the direction of the person you want to kill.

For two years, all you have to do is go where they tell you, stay behind your rifle, and kill and not be killed. It's simple, but simple isn't the same as easy.

Harvey called it his Occam's razor theory of combat: The simplest way of kicking someone's ass was usually the correct one.

It was an odd being which rose from Felix and through him. It was, in fact, a remarkable creature. It was a wartime creature and a surviving creature. A killing creature. The Engine, Felix thought. It's not me. It's my Engine. It will work when I cannot. It will examine and determine and choose and, at last, act. It will do all this while I cower inside.

And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.

The men of Spain held ground for a little while, but then their hearts broke under their fine red coats, and they ran away to hide in the jungle.

The dirty romans are forming up for calvery.

You know that a soldier is the most holy of all humans because he is the most tested—most tested of all. I'll try to tell you. Look now—in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man.

the warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul.

Kiev deve ter sido em tempos uma bela cidade. E agora é pouco mais que uma ruína. Não se tratou de combates, mas sim da destruição demencial de todas as instalações culturais que a cidade tinha, e da quase totalidade dos belos edifícios erguidos ao longo de mil anos.

For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.

My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in five wars in the infantry, always on the front line, and never hurt anybody.

Fear is for the enemy. Fear and bullets.

[...]you don't have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn't about killing or even hurting the other guy, it's about scaring him enough to call it a day.