Quotes About Military

French soldiers literally drank the entire day, beginning with wine (un pauvre larme – "a little teardrop"), progressing to spirits (le café le pousse-café), climaxing with a gut-searing brandy (le tord-boyaux – "the gut-wringer"), and ending with la consolation, a sweet liqueur that the French soldier sipped as he lay in his bunk contemplating the next day's exertions. Far from imbuing the army with an ésprit

major in the 1st Division added. That major always took a large number of shirkers for granted, relying throughout on that "certain number of men who can be depended upon, as a general thing, to begin and end all military operations.

Churchill that he had a great many military ideas, most of them likewise bad.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

VON NEUMANN MADE a deal with "the other party" in 1946. The scientists would get the computers, and the military would get the bombs. This seems to have turned out well enough so far, because, contrary to von Neumann's expectations, it was the computers that exploded, not the bombs.

Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.

The State of the Union has become, under presidents of both parties, a political pep rally degrading to everyone. The judiciary and uniformed military should never attend. And Congress, by hosting a spectacle so monarchical in structure (which is why Thomas Jefferson sent his thoughts to Congress in writing) deepens the diminishment of the legislative branch as a mostly reactive servant of an overbearing executive.

Boot camp was . . . being treated like a criminal. It was like I had broken a law by joining the Marines and had been sent to reform school.

the most efficient way to use military power is to disrupt emerging powers before they can become even marginally threatening.

You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully, it is that of military technology. No potential weapon would remain unrealized for ten thousand years.

In fact, it was part of the Tyrannian military tradition that a little discomfort on the part of the soldier was good for discipline.

the credits still go—unproductively—to the armed forces and vital areas of the social good are allowed to deteriorate. That's what I call decay.

And it was the amount of energy a single human could produce that dictated military potential, standard of living, happiness, and all besides.

It seems perfectly obvious that, since Terminus cannot defend itself, Anacreon must take over the job for its own sake. You understand we have no desire to interfere with internal administration—' 'Uh-huh,' grunted Hardin dryly. '—but we believe that it would be best for all concerned to have Anacreon establish a military base upon the planet.

male vanity goes deeper and is costlier. Look at their military uniforms and medals, the pomp and solemnity with which they show off, the extreme measures they employ to impress women and make other men envious; their luxurious toys, like cars, and their toys of supremacy, like weapons.

El general Augusto Pinochet encabezó una Junta Militar y pronto habría de convertirse en la personificación de la dictadura. La represión fue instantánea, fulminante y a fondo.

The few exiles who returned to the hospital were received with much less fanfare, because it was unwise to attract attention. This was the tacit slogan throughout the country: don't provoke the military, so as to pretend the recent past was buried and in the process of being forgotten.

The young soldier was part of the "Baby Bottle Conscription," the boys called up when there were no more men, young or old, to fight the war.

la guerra es la obra de arte de los militares, la culminacion de sus entrenamientos, el broche dorado de su profesion. No estan hechos para brillar en la paz. El Golpe les dio la oportunidad de poner en practica lo que habfan aprendido en los cuarteles, la obediencia ciega, el manejo de las armas y otras artes que los soldados pueden dominar cuando acallan los escrupulos del corazon

Creyeron que los militares iban a «limpiar» el país. «Se terminó la delincuencia, no hay muros pintarrajeados con graffiti, todo está limpio y gracias al toque de queda los maridos llegan temprano a la casa», me dijo una amiga.

No comprendió el estado de guerra interna ni se dio cuenta de que la guerra es la obra de arte de los militares, la culminación de sus entrenamientos, el broche dorado de su profesión. No están hechos para brillar en la paz.

We Chileans like the Germans for their sausage, their beer, and their Prussian helmets, as well as the goose step our military adopted for parades, but in practice we try to emulate the English. We admire them so much that we think we're the English of Latin America, just as we believe that the English are the Chileans of Europe.

One of the most tenacious myths of modern military history is that of German military omnicompetence. Even the staunchest critics prefer to believe that military disasters happen by design, rather than to imagine that structural dysfunction, or just plain mistakes, could have riddled the premier institution of the Kaiserreich. But that was precisely what was so embarrassing about the war in SWA: it displayed German military incompetence.

I actually shoot. I enjoy target practice. I find it really zen. You focus on nothing but the target. You have to control your breathing. It's all part of my years in the military, where I was taught to become a marksman but also to respect my weapon.