Quotes About Warfare
German soldiers made use of Stalingrad orphans themselves. Daily tasks, such as filling water-bottles, were dangerous when Russian snipers lay in wait for any movement. So, for the promise of a crust of bread, they would get Russian boys and girls to take their water-bottles down to the Volga's edge to fill them. When the Soviet side realized what was happening, Red Army soldiers shot children on such missions.
~ Antony Beevor
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Ne feledjék el – mondta [Patton] nekik [a katonáinak] egy alkalommal –, soha egyetlen fattyú sem nyert háborút azzal, hogy meghalt a hazájáért. Csak úgy gyÅ'znek, ha elérik, hogy a másik rohadék haljon meg az Å' hazájáért!
~ Antony Beevor
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A quarter of them came from countries overrun by the Nazis as well as from the Dominions: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Rhodesia and South Africa. There were so many Canadians that they formed separate RCAF squadrons, and so later did men from other countries, such as the Poles and French.
~ Antony Beevor
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That the Soviet regime was almost as unforgiving towards its own soldiers as towards the enemy is demonstrated by the total figure of 13,500 executions, both summary and judicial, during the battle of Stalingrad.
~ Antony Beevor
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These 'mine-dogs', trained on Pavlovian principles, had been taught to run under large vehicles to obtain their food. The stick, catching against the underside, would detonate the charge. Most of the dogs were shot before they reached their target, but this macabre tactic had an unnerving effect. It
~ Antony Beevor
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Many soldiers closed their minds to the suffering of the Belgians as they focused on the priority of killing the enemy. Those who did care were marked for life by the horrors that they witnessed. Villages
~ Antony Beevor
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An organisation that truly values its human capital as an asset makes an excessive investment on the employees' welfare than an extravagant expenditure on publicity warfare.
~ Anuj Somany
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Some Saian mountaineer Struts today with my shield. I threw it down by a bush and ran When the fighting got hot. Life seemed somehow more precious. It was a beautiful shield. I know where I can buy another Exactly like it, just as round.
~ Archilochus
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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never foughtShould contrive our fees to pilfer, one who for his native landNever to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
~ Aristophanes
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Victory is the end of generalship.
~ Aristotle
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The mass execution was ordered by Raúl Castro and attended by him personally. Nor was it an isolated instance; other officers in Castro's guerrilla forces shot ex-soldiers en masse without a trial, without any charges of any kind lodged against them, simply as an act of reprisal against the defeated army.
~ Armando Valladares
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Guilty and innocent alike fell before the firing squads. In the mountains when government troops captured some of the alzados, the alzados would be shot down where they were captured, and doctors of forensic medicine would cut open their abdomens to try to find the rest of the guerrilla groups by seeing what the contents of the dead men's stomachs were and determining where such food might be found.
~ Armando Valladares
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History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.
~ Arnold J. Toynbee
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What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes.
~ Julian Assange
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Nothing matures a military force quicker than actual military operations.
~ Duncan Hunter
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I don't think a country needs to bypass diplomacy, they don't need to attack us under the radar.
~ Ayelet Shaked
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Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.
~ Tom Tancredo
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You have to go out there and win battles before you can raid the dead of all their belongings.
~ Josh Barnett
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To understand how black projects began, and how they continue to function today, one must start with the creation of the atomic bomb. The men who ran the Manhattan Project wrote the rules about black operations. The atomic bomb was the mother of all black projects, and it is the parent from which all black operations have sprung.
~ Annie Jacobsen
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Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.
~ Jim Mattis
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I really like 'Game of Thrones.
~ Aesop Rock
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I love 'Game of Thrones.'
~ Robin Thicke
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I love watching 'Game of Thrones,' 'Rome,' and 'Spartacus' from the period dramas genre.
~ Ashish Sharma
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'Game of Thrones' is one of my favourite series.
~ Neil Nitin Mukesh
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