Quotes About Warfare

Boots and guns had replaced banners and horses, but the story was the same. Men with black hearts. With black souls.

The second encirclement would be a disaster, and it would win me commendation and international fame. It would leave my brain full—as it is now, here on the Toloa's deck—of visions of pleading faces and ruined bodies, of phantom agonies that scour the parts of my consciousness where I once held hope for the future, like the pains that plague a maimed man where a limb's been cut away.

In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.

Because all this stuff about military targets is absolute rubbish. There's no point in bombing German factories, because they just rebuild them. So we're targeting large areas of dense working-class housing. They can't replace the workers so fast." Lowther looked shocked. "That would mean it's our policy to kill civilians.

people who were polite to his mistress. Lloyd George spoke to the group. "That German ship delivered the guns to Mexico after all. It simply went to another port and quietly unloaded. So nineteen American troops died for nothing. It's a terrible humiliation for Woodrow Wilson.

Because all this stuff about military targets is absolute rubbish. There's no point in bombing German factories, because they just rebuild them. So we're targeting large areas of dense working-class housing. They can't replace the workers so fast.

Weapons seem to be the issue now, isn't it?" "Aye," said Billy. "The Germans and the Italians are supplying the rebels with guns and ammunition, as well as fighter planes and pilots. But no one is helping the elected Spanish government.

Flares and small incendiary bombs began to fall as the car approached Kreuzberg. The neighborhood was a typical target for the RAF's current strategy of killing as many civilian factory workers as possible. With staggering hypocrisy Churchill and Attlee were claiming they attacked only military targets, and civilian casualties were a regrettable side effect. Berliners knew better.

Lowther looked shocked. "That would mean it's our policy to kill civilians." "Exactly." "But the government assures us—" "The government lies," Boy said. "And the bomber crews know it. Many of them don't give a damn, of course, but some feel bad. They believe that if we're doing the right thing, then we should say so, and if we're doing the wrong thing we should stop.

Nor would he care what the target was. If they bombed Chile, it would be the same as bombing New York.

Until August the Luftwaffe had raided only ports and airfields. Fitz had explained, in an unusually candid moment, that the British were not so scrupulous: the government had approved bombing of targets in German cities back in May, and all through June and July the RAF had dropped bombs on women and children in their homes. The German public had been enraged by this and demanded retaliation. The Blitz was the result.

El flanco de un ejército era más vulnerable que su cabecera.

este modo, los rusos describieron una trayectoria envolvente cuyos flancos se cerraron en tenaza en las proximidades de una ciudad llamada Tannenberg. Ambos

If we have nuclear weapons, why can't we use them?

Here in North Africa, American forces were fighting against terrorists whose values were violence, bigotry, and fear.

Noruega fue invadida el mismo día que Dinamarca, pero los noruegos estuvieron luchando durante dos meses. ¿No nos convierte eso en unos cobardes?

Lanzar una bomba desde un avión en movimiento y lograr que impactara contra un barco en movimiento, o dejar caer un torpedo de manera que alcanzara un buque, revestía una dificultad increíble, sobre todo para un piloto al que estaban disparando desde arriba y desde abajo.

its young soldiers across no-man's-land to be mown down by machine guns. Again and again the newspapers hailed a victory, but the telegrams told another story.

All the bows bent simultaneously, like blades of wheat in a field blown by a sudden summer breeze; then the arrows were released with a collective sound like a church bell tolling. The shafts, flying faster than the swiftest bird, rose into the air then turned downward and fell on the crossbowmen like a hailstorm.

que había alentado al Ejército Rojo a comportarse como unas bestias enloquecidas en Alemania…

We need to use overwhelming air power. We need to be arming the Kurds. We need to be fighting and killing ISIS where they are.

It is not possible . . . to concentrate enough military planes with military loads over a modern city to destroy that city.

All branches of our government today are controlled by individuals who use their power to undermine liberty and enhance the welfare/warfare state-and frequently their own wealth and power.

The cavalry, in particular, were not friendly to the aeroplane, which it was believed, would frighten the horses.