Quotes About Military

Nothing could do more harm to America's national security than a carbon-restricted, depressed economy that would make funding our military impossible.

Our national security is inextricably linked to our relationship with, and military support for, Israel.

Nations, not least America, retain full command of their national forces.

For years, we have heard warnings that Europe needs to contribute more to NATO's capability.

Taiwan isn't simply the source of the advanced chips that both countries' militaries are betting on. It's also the most likely future battleground.

Mead-Conway Revolution" than the Pentagon.

Helping companies and professors keep Moore's Law alive, DARPA reasoned, was crucial to America's military edge.

But pilots who used these bombs knew just how transformative they were.

Advanced microelectronics and a set of wings strapped to a bomb had transformed the nature of military power.

Lathrop applied for a patent on the technique in 1957. With the Army band playing, the military gave him a medal for his work and a $25,000 cash bonus, which he used to buy his family a Nash Rambler station wagon.

Does anyone in this room remember they're in the military?" Griffen demanded. "Occasionally," Mack said, "when we get bad intel.

The corporal's morale is excellent verging on sublime, sir.

The corporal was not having sex with the congressman in a minefield.

In the eighteenth century it was generally believed that people needed to take in a certain amount of "spirits" every day for strength and energy: Washington, in planning one long forced march, ordered extra rations of rum for the troops as a matter of course.

Fuck off, some of them seem to be yelling at coalition forces. A lot hinges on the appropriate military response. Fuck you might be risky. OK, off we fuck, then might buy some valuable time.

George Orwell once observed that if Napoléon Bonaparte had been cut down by a musket ball as he entered Moscow, he would have been remembered as the greatest general since Alexander.

No one can deny, in face of the evidence, that it is easy, given military power, to produce a population of fanatical lunatics. It would be equally easy to produce a population of sane and reasonable people, but many governments do not wish to do so, since such people would fail to admire the politicians who are at the head of these governments.

Which goes to show you, right there, the difference between sailors and marines: marines are fucking stupid. Running when you don't have to.

That won't work, isn't Special Forces where everyone gets a hug?" Charlie called. "That's the Special Olympics," Rivera said

Let me tell you. The military accepts everyone who volunteers, assuming they meet the basic requirements. That means, at one end of the spectrum, you get people who would just as soon cut your throat as shake your hand. And at the other end of the spectrum, you get people so timid they wouldn't hurt a fly. And what the military does is teach both of them how and when to apply violence.

The black world is much more than an archipelago of secret bases. It is a secret basis underlying much of the American economy.

Beginning in the early 1960's, history began to rhyme once again when the Department of Energy and the military began setting off nuclear weapons in the desert. Mushroom clouds lit the skies, and fallout fell like snow. The explosions were called tests, but were nonetheless full-fledged dress rehearsals for Armageddon, perhaps more. Among the desert's longtime residents, the difference between nuclear testing and nuclear war was far from self-evident.

On several occasions during the war he came to the relief of the Union army by means of his SUPERIOR MILITARY GENIUS.

I felt that 15,000 men on the 8th would be more effective than 50,000 a month later.