Quotes About Military

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

Two departments of the PLA—the General Staff Department's Third and Fourth Departments, respectively—are organized to systematically penetrate communications and computer systems, extract information, and exploit that information.15 It is far faster, cheaper, and more efficient for the PLA to steal new technology than to devote vast amounts of time and money to develop it.

Unlike the traditional paradigm of warfare, in which the military object is the destruction of enemy battalions, divisions, and corps, in the paradigm of irregular warfare the security objective is the population itself.

if there is one lesson the Army has learned (or re-learned) in the past twelve years of war, it is this: the application of military force in its current form has limited utility when fighting modern wars among the people. "Combat power" in the form of superior weapons systems, cutting-edge technology, and disproportionate force ratios may enable tactical success on the ground, but does not guarantee strategic victory.

The once proud PLA realizes that it is short of everything that it takes to win a modern war.

nearly half the half million were engaged in military occupations other than those of a fighting soldier or officer. And of the more than two hundred and fifty thousand men that this left technically available for active duty in the field, more than a hundred and fifty thousand at any one time were rendered—or managed to render themselves—ineffective through a variety of means and for a variety of causes.

In 1812 the U.S. Army consisted of fewer than seven thousand regular troops.

Wherever a man of vigour and stature manages to grow up, he is haled forthwith into the army. A soldier, as Bernard Shaw has said, 'ostensibly a heroic and patriotic defender of his country, is really an unfortunate man driven by destitution to offer himself as food for powder for the sake of regular rations, shelter, and clothing.

He whirled with fierce passion on me: 'Don't you ever let yourself grow old, lad. Die when you're young, or you'll come to this. I'm tellin' you sure. Seven an' eighty years am I, an' served my country like a man. Three good conduct stripes and the Victoria Cross, an' this is what I get for it. I wish I was dead, I wish I was dead. Can't come any too quick for me, I tell you.

Despite the initial reliance of commerce on routes created through military conquest, it soon became obvious that whereas armies moved quickest by horse across land, massive quantities of goods moved best by water. Mongols expanded and lengthened the Grand Canal that already connected the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers to transport grain and other agricultural products farther and more efficiently into the northern districts.

officers composed their orders in rhyme, using a standardized system known to every soldier. The Mongol warriors used a set of fixed melodies and poetic styles into which various words could be improvised according to the meaning of the message. For a soldier, hearing the message was like learning a new verse to a song that he already knew. The

Suffice it to say that we only answer questions when the person asking has a lot of silver on the epaulettes, or around the peak of his cap.

In a time of war the supply and movement of money becomes even more crucial than ever. Money is a powerful tool, and wars are about powerful men and how they use the tools at their disposal. The military is involved in a number of ways.

if a nation is totally geared to the waging of war, it had better ensure that war keeps occurring somewhere;

a nation is totally geared to the waging of war, it had better ensure that war keeps occurring somewhere; and

They were the ships of Task Force 77 and they had been sent to destroy the communist-held bridges at Toko-ri.

serving a two-year appointment as the Class of 1951 Chair for the Study of Leadership at the United States Military Academy at West Point is the fundamental importance of unit leadership. The cellular structure of any truly great organization is the well-led unit, for this is where great things get done. Great leadership at the top doesn't amount to very much without exceptional leadership at the unit level.

I racket di protezione, abituali e persistenti, sono una strategia a lungo periodo rispetto al saccheggio occasionale e quindi dipendono da un ambiente politico e militare ragionevolmente stabile. E sono difficilmente distinguibili dallo stesso stato arcaico che, come loro, si appropria del surplus sostenibile di comunità sedentarie e respinge attacchi esterni per proteggere la sua base.

and damned nomads in Mesopotamia have again cut the telegraph—another expeditionary force is being organized to deal with them once and for all!

Inbound now at twenty thousand feet, moving swifly toward the island, came a wave of twin-engine Betty bombers and thirty Zeros, fuel burning fast on half-empty tanks.

No sé que quereís decir con vuestras alusiones a los artes cruentos de la guerra. A otros dejo el honor, si de honor se trata, de tan semejantes ciencias bélicas.

The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies.

Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars.

Both my grandfathers were in the Navy, and I have cousins and uncles in the military, so it's something that I've always respected.