Quotes About Military

The Air Force did not want Eisenhower exposed to Oppenheimer's thinking, particularly since his views would support the Army's demand for a bigger share of the atomic budget.

Increasingly alarmed by the development of what President Eisenhower would someday call the "military-industrial complex," Oppenheimer had tried to use his celebrity status to question the scientific community's increasing dependency on the military. In 1954, he lost.

In Iraq, the public has lost all sense of self; it exists only in the form artificially imparted to it by "its" regime. This was an outcome of statification, party growth, and all the other indices that have been discussed.442 The dissolution of Iraqi identity is the most fundamental explanation for why no connection existed in Ba?thist Iraq between military achievements and extending or withholding political allegiance.

focusing on a Major Dick Long of the 73rd Ohio, who possessed "a killing set of whiskers

I think the U.S.'s relationship with the military is something really intriguing as a Brit because I don't think we have the exact same thing.

I want to stop directing so many of resources to the military budget and focus them here at home. I believe government should invest in public infrastructure.

Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty.

Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty. And you can't investigate up the chain of command, which is a huge impediment.

A great deal of the work I do involves the military.

It is a natural goal of Iran to try and expel the Fifth Fleet from Bahrain.

I am not going to second-guess my old battlefield comrades from Iraq and Afghanistan; each has his own reason for what he has done.

If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.

The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.

We've had Saudis and Jordanians and Pakistanis who have - and Syrians - who have been involved in armed attacks against coalition forces in Iraq.

After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?

Certainly, when I'd left Iraq back in 2008, I'd been proud of my service, but whether we'd been successful or not was still an open question.

The concern is that Iraq could actually ultimately defeat ISIS, but Iran will have taken over the country, because it will be their military, their boots on the ground controlling the ground.

By the time the 2008 election arrived, we had finally won the Iraq War, or we were on the road to winning it. We won starting in the summer of 2007 going into late 2011.

We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily.

The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.

The Iron Dome is great for the U.S.

Whenever I returned after winning a race, my friends in the Army would lift me on their shoulders and break into Bhangra, irrespective of whether they knew the dance or not.