Quotes About Warfare

The second patient had been shot in the frontal lobe. He was there with his son, who was maybe eleven years old. The boy would leave at night, knock on doors asking for help, and then go back to his dad. On the third day, the army entered the hospital and killed them both. We saw them take the corpses away.

That August was the chemical weapons attack.

Forces from Hezbollah, Iran, and Russia encircled the town.

It's airstrikes that have destroyed the country. Planes do the most damage, and ISIS doesn't have planes.

The second massacre was the chemical weapons attack.

Les États-Unis dépensent des milliards de dollars en militaires pour les guerres, mais ils ne peuvent pas donner aux dirigeants haïtiens honnêtes de l'argent pour développer Haïti, et pourtant ils ont dit qu'ils aimaient Haïti.

What passing bells for these who die as cattleOnly the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattleCan patter out their hasty orisons.

These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.

As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul.

If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.

He sent in a conventional force, admittedly just a few men from the Tenth Mountain Division. It reminded all that there were never enough SOF. Airpower had killed effectively in Qala-i-Jangi. After all the hammering, though, people had to go in on the ground with rifles, grenades, and guts. To control dirt and the societies that lived on it, you had to use live, trained, disciplined humans, and more than a few.

Afghanistan. Jarrah

America's innate uneasiness with death from above. It ill accords with the values of a democratic republic.

Master Sun put it simply: "Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril

In 1944, B-17 bomber formations dropped 9,070 bombs in order to hit one German building. In 1967, F-105 jet fighter-bombers used 176 munitions to knock out a single North Vietnamese building. By 1991, a smart F-16 fighter-bomber could do the job with thirty bombs, or just one, if the bomb was smart too.

The last soldier killed, Specialist David E. Hickman of the Second Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry, died in an IED strike in Baghdad on November 14, 2011.

Specialist David E. Hickman of the Second Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry, died in an IED strike in Baghdad on November 14, 2011.

I warn you against shedding blood, indulging in it and making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps. SALADIN

Aquilo ali são balas. Cinquenta milhões delas, para ser exacto. O suficiente para matar uma grande porção do Terceiro Mundo. Mas não há grandes probabilidades disso. O típico combatente da liberdade não é muito disciplinado. Não nos queixamos. É bom para o negócio".

Abu Jihad . . . Even now, the sound of

Such was life in the Islamic caliphate, bombs falling upon severed heads, in a park where children once played. It

six gun-type bombs, the last such weapons ever built.

Sun-tzu wrote that all warfare is based on deception. He preached that every battle is won or lost before it's ever fought.

lethal roadside bombs