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Quotes About Military

Das Reich's journey to Normandy should have taken no more than seventy-two hours. Instead, it took seventeen days for the main body to arrive, and it was even longer before the last of the vehicles reached the battlefield. By the time General Lammerding's men and tanks were ready for action, it was too late. The Allied beachhead was secure.
~ Giles Milton
The Guardships don't defend Canon, they exterminate Canon's enemies. There's a difference.
~ Glen Cook
scruff of the neck and seat of the pants, and ran him out the door to the accompaniment of appropriate old-time remarks about seedy little army types who failed to acknowledge the natural superiority of their overlords, the Marines.
~ Glen Cook
SÅ'u?ba u Pani nie byÅ'a zÅ'a. Cho? otrzymywaliÅ›my najci??sze zadania, nigdy nie musieliÅ›my wykonywa? brudnej roboty. To zawsze spadaÅ'o na oddziaÅ'y regularne. Niekiedy, oczywiÅ›cie, uderzenia prewencyjne. Od czasu do czasu masakra. Wszystko jednak w ramach zawodu. Militarna konieczno??. Nigdy nie byliÅ›my zamieszani w szczególne okrucieÅ"stwa. Kapitan by na to nie pozwoliÅ'.
~ Glen Cook
When Elbridge Gerry proposed in the Convention that no standing army exceed three thousand men, Washington is supposed to have made a countermotion that "no foreign enemy should invade the United States at any time, with more than three thousand troops.
~ Gordon S. Wood
Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever since with somebody or other in order to justify the war machine. Now we have alienated almost the entire earth
~ Gore Vidal
He loved the idea of this country (theory and practice often being diametrically opposed), but the manner in which the original documents of freedom had been mangled to steer corporate/military interests drove him close to clinically insane. I believe it was grief for a nation that finally killed him.
~ Grace Slick
vulturii, ca ni?te curcani domestici, se plimbau tactico?i prin gunoaiele regimentului.
~ Graham Greene
Is the colonel seriously telling us,' Granger said, 'that he's had time to count the enemy dead and not his own?
~ Graham Greene
a military base, to check out the story.
~ Greg Iles
The United States Air Force never really wanted GPS.
~ Greg Milner
Russia's most prominent military scientist noted that Desert Storm showed that terms like "front lines" and "flanks," and the idea that winning a war means occupying enemy territory, were no longer relevant.
~ Greg Milner
Despite that commitment, the Resistance found itself stymied. Republic space and First Order space were separated by a buffer zone of neutral systems, and the peace that had been negotiated—a peace that many, including Poe, believed existed in name only—meant that military action taken by one side upon the other was considered an overt act of war. It
~ Greg Rucka
According to the evidence available, the military did not keep a single ledger listing and locating all Confederate and Union graves on and around the Gettysburg battlefield.
~ Gregory A. Coco
With a knock, a slim army lieutenant came in, introduced himself as James Benford, and handed Groves a briefing summary folder. "You have to approve these, sir." Karl
~ Gregory Benford
A business suit, Didier once said to me, is nothing but a military uniform, stripped of its honour. And
~ Gregory David Roberts
If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to be the one with the world trade currency. That gives them an enormous economic advantage, which causes goods to flow into their country.
~ David Graeber
A few weeks after the planes hit the World Trade Center, I applied for a direct commission in the U.S. Army Reserve and ultimately served three active duty tours, including overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan. Really, my whole family served three tours.
~ Cal Cunningham
Economic, political and military intervention following the first world war is frequently blamed for current friction between east and west.
~ Bettany Hughes
The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.
~ Clint Eastwood
My father was an air officer in the Second World War. My brother was a marine in Vietnam. When I was given this opportunity, I leapt at the chance because I thought it would be a hell of a lot more interesting than what my friends were doing.
~ Valerie Plame
They came out over the highway and they stopped and that's when Barney got out, with the binoculars to try and identify the craft. I mean, he'd been in the military in World War Two, he's puzzled.
~ Betty Hill
Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red Army, which helped to produce the ultra-nationalist military dictatorship of General Pilsudski.
~ Tariq Ali
Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted.
~ Steven Spielberg