Quotes About Warfare

repeated Anglo-American failures to destroy Hitler's armies, despite successes in displacing them from occupied territory, meant that the Red Army remained until 1945, as it had been since 1941, the main engine of Nazism's destruction.

The American and British armies in the Second World War paid a high price for the privilege of the profoundly anti-militaristic ethos of their nations.

William Slim, a shrewd, rugged Gurkha officer who would eventually show himself to be Britain's ablest general of the

It seems flippant to suggest that Hitler determined to invade Russia because he could not think what else to do, but there is something in this

At 50 Squadron, there was another verse for the intelligence officer's long epic verse, set to the tune of Noel Coward's "Mad Dogs and Englishmen": When the sirens moan to awake Cologne They shiver in their shoes; In the Berlin street they're white as sheets With a tinge of Prussian blues;

The cost in men and ships Ã¢â'¬Â¦ ran up a score which Irish eyes a-smiling on the day of Allied victory were not going to cancel

From start to finish, he grasped the fact that the Anglo-Americans needed Russia's vast human sacrifice more than Russia needed Western supplies.

It is not only more bloody and more murderous than any previous wars but also more cruel, more relentless, more pitiless … It discards all the parameters to which we defer in times of peace and which we called the rights of man. It does not recognise the privileges of the wounded man or of the doctor and it does not distinguish between non-combatants and the fighting part of the population.

dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness, gentlemen.

Looking back later, we could see that the military code was unreasonable. But at that time, we regarded dying for our country as our duty. If men had been allowed to surrender honourably, everybody would have been doing it.

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together.

Kind of interested in you, " he laughs, as if he can't believe what he's hearing. "I'm kind of interested in calculus and ancient Roman warfare. You don't use words like kind of interested to describe how I feel about you.

We shall fight on the beaches," said Churchill in 1940, "we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." Only "surrender" is not Old English. That, in itself, might be significant.

Out of the firefight, into the carbon freeze." -Anakin Solo

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.

The concept of "purity of arms" was forged by the Haganah, meaning that combatants' weapons shouldn't be soiled by hurting civilians, women, children or unarmed enemy soldiers.

But then there would be no city left to claim. Scorched earth is a policy, it's just not usually the best one.

But nothing could stand before our lads, they routed them from the Meadow, & all afterwards was a mere Chace, so far I saw."1 — James Parker, September 11, 1777

in Baltimore Harbor. While the U-boat haunted Americans

I learned always to avoid glorious campaigns—everyone is more likely to die in glorious campaigns.

Unless one throws away all weapons, all armor, he cannot learn meekness.

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

Michael G. Thomas