Quotes About Warfare

The Taliban is resilient.

Rockets fired by the Taliban generally aren't guided.

The armies, the difference of all of those armies that had been fighting each other and the Taliban took advantage of that to rule over the whole country.

I've dealt with the Taliban and al Qaeda.

I was point man, which meant I was the first through the door, hunting down Taliban commanders, knocking down forts every night.

Defeat the Taliban. Secure the population.

The Taliban are terrible shots. At the end of some long patrols, we'd be walking through the fields and get shot at - and we'd just keep walking.

A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well.

During dull moments at school, I admit, I not only drew soldiers shooting one another but also tanks, bombers, fighters, and even the occasional space ship with planet-destroying powers.

Tanks being deployed far forward is an indication of offensive action; tanks in depth is an indication of defensive action.

Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the 'liberating' kind.

I came back to earth to kill things, so I have to expect things to fight back occasionally.

In the history of mankind, the fine art of killing one another in a civilized and uniformed manner has been elusive.

Normandy operations, typified by Quesada's armored column cover and Broadhurst's contact cars, thus fulfilled a concept born a quarter-century earlier, amid the mud of Flanders: the notion of the airplane as a partner of the tank, as a "counter antitank" weapon. In that war, then-Colonel J.F.C. Fuller, Great Britain's greatest armor advocate, had recognized that cooperation between air and armor forces was "of incalculable importance.

Maybe things always look different when we leave them, like a lover. Or a battleground. (Sometimes those are one and the same.)

There was no path to victory when you couldn't attack into the heart of enemy territory for fear of collateral damage. Collateral damage! God help you if you killed some civilians, even if those were the very people supporting and enabling our enemies. Had that philosophy held sway in World War II, every American would now be speaking Japanese or German.

The 442nd, exhausted and undermanned—the casualty list was over two thousand wounded and killed in just four weeks in the Vosges campaign—was

The Lost Battalion's final radio transmission was, "Patrol 442 here. Tell them we love them.

The sound of sporadic gunfire echoing through the narrow streets of Dublin

Oh-h-h-h— Hidey, tidey, Christ Almighty Who the hell are we? Flim, flam, God damn We're the infantry…

Hooray! said the Chief of the Army. Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!

Human beans is the only animals that is killing their own kind.

They is shootling guns and going up in aerioplanes to drop their bombs on each other's heads every week. Human beans is always killing other human beans.

As it says in the Bible, God fights on the side with the heaviest artillery.