Quotes About Warfare

This time, as with every time, when the fighting starts it will be more terrible than the fight that came before. Always it is the worst, the most violent, the least restrained, a steady escalation. The singular rule.

Great Marine commanders, like all great warriors, are able to kill that which they love most -- their men.

Worst of all were the accolades and thanks from people "for what you guys did over there." Thanks for what, I wanted to ask—shooting kids, cowering in terror behind a berm, dropping artillery on people's homes?

Infantry Marines live only and forever in the real world.

They carry grenades and will die rather than be captured,' Scar informed him. 'Problem?'Thorn enquired. 'It will wash off.

Cao reveled in the acclaim and the prospect of a general's stars. "I kill fifty Viet Cong today," he would announce to reporters coming to the command post. He began to learn the public relations game perhaps too well.

Lansdale became the Agency's expert on guerrilla warfare and countersubversion. He also acquired something more important in government than recognized expertise: a mystique, a reputation for being able to perform miracles.

President Kennedy would have been better served if he had remembered from his days as a junior officer in the Navy that the closer one gets to a fight, the more one learns of its essence.

the country was in upheaval and the townships were on the brink of open warfare, white life went on placidly and undisturbed.

Worry about right and wrong wasn't a concept he embraced. Right and wrong were ephemerals; they changed from every angle, from hour to hour, depending on which side of any of a thousand borders a soldier was born.

Plainly the Kaiser knew his men ... so he sent them forth to bayonet babes, violate old women, murder old men, crucify officers, violate nuns, sink Lusitanias , and turn solemn treaties into scraps of paper.

Below this shelf are these big dinner plates on display, they're wedding china that came from Aunts Penelope and Daphne some years before Lester and Chester. They were very china-giving aunts, which was of course secret warfare because the more they gave the more you had to find some place to display the stuff. We had china in boxes in the cabins that we couldn't sell because it had to be taken out when The Aunts arrived.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.

To the British frigates, shadowing them now at a distance of half a gunshot,

The British would have them next day and a battle would ensue.

My friends,' he told them. 'I am going to throw this aboard the English ship.

The Spanish were furious with the French.

The Spanish were naturally outraged. The British were no better than pirates.

The first shot came from the carronade on the Victory's port fo'c'sle.

The Royal Navy was waiting for them outside, but its ships were thinly spread and heavily outnumbered.

carronade fired straight through the windows of the Bucentaure's upper cabin,

BRITAIN'S MILITARY DEFENCES

It was followed in sequence by the fifty broadside guns on the Victory's port side,