Quotes About Warfare

The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. Its first symptom was falling hair. Diarrhea and fever, which in some cases went as high as 106, came next.

Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.

Carpet bombing tends to portray something that's totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target.

For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield.

In counterinsurgency operations, the human terrain is the decisive terrain.

Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.

Hundreds and hundreds of the dead were so badly burned in the terrific heat generated by the bomb that it was not even possible to tell whether they were men or women, old or young.

In addition to surviving the Forrestal, McCain has survived three other plane disasters, including being shot down over enemy territory.

When you're on the battlefield, you switch off your soul; otherwise, you would die of terror - you would die of fear. You switch off your soul, and you act like an animal or a machine.

We must fight and win the battle against terror overseas so we never have to fight it here at home.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.

We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.

I think we live in a country where we go overseas, and we fight other people's wars, and we fight terrorism overseas internationally, but we don't want to fully acknowledge the terrorism that goes on domestically.

A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.

Some people are more terrorist than others.

I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns of blood that had spurted from bin Laden's head when the bullet fired by a U.S. Navy SEAL tore through the terrorist leader's face.

We must be certain that we all realize that our enemy is not an enemy that is located in one single place. There are terrorist cells all around the globe.

The fact that a terrorist was killed, and it doesn't matter if it was in Dubai or Gaza, is good news to those fighting terrorism.

ISIL is a terrorist army like we have never seen - they cannot be ignored.

If you look at all those terrorist groups - I'm talking, going back, Hezbollah, Hamas, al-Nusra, al-Qaeda, ISIS - they're all proxy armies in an Islamic civil war.

We must stop arming terrorists.