Quotes About Military

The Mexican War was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murders settled on us, the leaders knew the techniques for making it properly horrible.

For instance, one of the costs of the war is that soldiers today get very seriously injured but stay alive, and we can keep them alive but at an enormous price.

The holiest war is the one which is fought against the war industry!

The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high [military] budget.

I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.

A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it.

After a decade of war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate U.S. public opinion.

Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war.

I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.

The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he will learn readily and make a good soldier.

When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

Those who prepare for war get it.

It amazes me that we spend 20% of the US budget on defense and far-off wars, and not on fighting cancer, disease, and aging.

The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use.

Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.

It's a lot cleaner when Command kills you on purpose . . . than when they do it by accident.

Very few people in the USA realize that a nuclear war was waged with nature in the southwest by their own military.

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true...

...much of modern military tactics is geared toward maneuvering the enemy into a position where they can essentially be massacred from safety. (pg. 140)

The Battle of Normandy was won on the beaches of Dieppe

the militay dont start wars, politicians start wars

The Military don't die. They go to heaven to join god's army and prepare for armageddon.

I might wish our Windthorn men were less obsessed with war, but I have to admit it keeps them busy.

Your people sell the weapons. My people use them.