Quotes About Military

More bombs had been dropped in North and South Vietnam by the beginning of 1968 than had been dropped over Europe in all of World War II, three times more than were dropped in the Pacific theater, and twice as many as in Korea.

Increasingly the United States found itself isolated. Having for two decades enjoyed its status as champion of the free world, it was increasingly the target of bitter criticism abroad and at home, where a growing number of prominent intellectuals and church leaders denounced the bombing campaign as barbaric. The military might disdain the fickle nature of public sympathy, but a democracy cannot sustain a war effort without it, and moral revulsion was growing.

Enemy morale has not been broken—he apparently has adjusted to our stopping his drive for military victory and has adopted a strategy of keeping us busy and waiting us out (a strategy of attriting our national will). He knows that we have not been, and he believes we probably will not be, able to translate our military successes into the 'end products'—broken enemy morale and political achievements by the GVN [government of Vietnam].

The fifty-three-year-old former Eagle Scout from South Carolina didn't drink, smoke, or swear; the most colorful expletive in his vocabulary was "dad gum."7 He was a West Pointer and had been an artillery commander in World War II.

Information and intelligence is the fire and maneuver of the twenty-first century," says Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn

the entire rationale for fighting in Vietnam was rooted in faith. Faith that his elected leaders and military bosses knew what they were doing and that the calculation that had placed his life at such peril mattered, that it did more than just make sense but demanded his suffering and sacrifice.

There were none of the card games marines usually played in downtimes. They were too tired to concentrate, and poker was serious business.

increasingly, they did not really know each other. The constant toll of death and injury, in addition to the policy of rotating marines out promptly when their thirteen months up, meant that squads were always changing. There was no such thing as unit cohesion.

Today there is big money for those who can stealthily invade computer networks, or construct a secure botnet, and no modern military arsenal is complete without state-of-the-art malware.

There is a very strange contradiction in what we are saying and doing," said Clark Clifford in a meeting on February 9 with the president and his top military advisers. Clifford

Prime numbers are useful for writing codes and in America they are classed as Military Material and if you find one over 100 digits you have to tell the CIA and they buy it off you for $10,000. But it would not be a very good way of making a living.

He said that it was very difficult to become an astronaut. I said that I knew. You had to become an officer in the air force and you had to take lots of orders and be prepared to kill other human beings, and I couldn't take orders. Also I didn't have 20/20 vision, which you needed to be a pilot.

Prime numbers are useful for writing codes and in America they are classed as Military Material and if you find one over 100 digits long you have to tell the CIA and they buy it off you for $10,000.

Los números primos son útiles para crear códigos y en Estados Unidos los consideran Material Militar y si descubres uno de más de 100 dígitos tienes que decírselo a la CIA y te lo compran por 10.000 dólares. Pero no sería una forma demasiado buena de ganarse la vida.

Prime numbers are useful for writing codes and in America they are classed as Military Material and if you find one over 100 digits long you have to tell the CIA and they buy it off you for $10,000. But it would not be a very good way of making a living. Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

When I was in Bulgarian paratroopers – we like this plane very much,' he said. 'Of course, we were all wearing parachutes.

The easy lilt of a military anthem, the sexual glamour of uniforms, the evangelical fervor of a demagogue — the Berliners recognized the dangers because they had become susceptible themselves.

He was saddled with the equally serious military – indeed, also civilian – handicap of chronic inability to be obsequious to superiors in rank, particularly when he found them uncongenial.

Neuro-psychiatric cases, termed combat exhaustion, rose to nearly a quarter of all hospital admissions. The German army, which refused to recognize the condition, apparently suffered far fewer cases. Combat exhaustion produced recognizable symptoms: 'nausea, crying, extreme nervousness and gastric conditions'. Some

The newly landed 2nd Infantry

La Operación Market Garden, iniciada el 17 de septiembre, no solo era ambiciosa. Estuvo además sorprendentemente mal planificada, sus oportunidades de éxito eran mínimas y no debió intentarse nunca.

Frontline soldiers are advancing day and night under fire, with pure and saintly hearts. The rear echelon men who follow along behind are raping, drinking and looting.

telephones. At 05.37 hours the 726th Grenadier-Regiment reported, 'Off Asnelles [Gold beach]

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