Quotes About Military

Note throughout all of this that it was the pope who called for all of these wars and campaigns over a nearly two-hundred-year period. The pope in effect inspired, directed, and commanded the political and military actions of European princes. We are hard put to find any parallel of purely religious authorities in Islam directing the actions of Muslim armies.

Orientation, the big O in the OODA loop, is the schwerpunkt.

Around the world, the message received is that, whoever wins [the U.S. election], expect only more of the same - national narcissism disguised as altruism, corporate appeasement, and the arbitrary use of U.S. military and economic might.

If we try to resolve terrorism with military might and nothing else, then we will be no safer than we were before 9/11. If we truly want a legacy of peace for our children, we need to understand that this is a war that will ultimately be won with books, not with bombs.

Have you heard of the Resistance, Poe?" "Rumors, mostly." "Such as?" "Such as there's a splinter of the Republic military that…that feels the Republic isn't taking certain threats as seriously as they maybe ought to be taking them. Specifically the threat posed by the First Order.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Firemen, police officers, professional athletes and military service personnel are all trained with this in mind, they are taught to direct their energy, to use stress constructively.

El comandante avanzaba a paso lento, bobeando como si fuera un pensionado

Just watch me. Do what I do. These guys will tell you that I am a monster, but I'm the only grunt in this squad that doesn't have his head up his ass. In this world of shit, monsters live forever and everybody else dies. If you kill for fun, you're a sadist. If you kill for money, you're a mercenary. If you kill for both, you're a Marine.

Se ammazzi per sfizio, sei sadico, sei. Se ammazzi per soldi, sei un mercenario. Se ammazzi per soldi e per sfizio, sei un marine, ragazzo.

climate-change scenarios are already playing a large and increasing role in the military planning process.

En los siguientes meses, la feria de ejecuciones de la guerra entre La Familia Mexicana y Los Zetas sacude al estado. Este es el litigio de sangre que decide la intervención del presidente Felipe Calderón en Michoacán, en los primeros días del año de 2007, el primer paso de lo que será un proceso sostenido de operativos militares y policiacos en gran escala para contener al crimen organizado durante el gobierno de Calderón (2006-2012) y hasta ahora.

La intervención militar en Michoacán tiene el efecto buscado de contener la espiral de homicidios pero el efecto no buscado de golpear más a Los Zetas que a la Familia Michoacana, dejando a esta quedarse con el campo y garantizar, con su propio ejercicio de captura del territorio, cierta estabilización de la violencia, incluso cierto clima de tranquilidad pública, pero en el contexto subterráneo de un más amplio dominio criminal.

The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

It's a seminal moment in the history of Germany and Europe. Stopping at the Elbe is not a normal military-political decision; it's one dictated by higher powers. Crossing the Rhine is fine; but the Elbe marks the end of reasonable ambition.

Guderian's troops reaching the Meuse was an absolutely extraordinary achievement, and was due to a masterpiece example of the German Bewegungskrieg.

At the time, he and two of his classmates had been three of only eight black officers in the United States Army Air Forces. To get to that point they had had to be better than their white colleagues at every stage of the training programme.

All right, he thought, okay; if thats the way it is; a savagery of anger in him now at the picture. They call them pin-up girls and think its cute how our boys, now that they're drafted, love to hang them in their wall lockers. And then close up all the whorehouses, every place they can, so our young men will not be contaminated.

if you haven't noticed, the United States government is the biggest weapons manufacturer in the world.

Whenever I hear and see a politician or a military leader, a bank of American flags at his back, trying to convince us of the rightness of a policy or a deed that will cause harm to others; when I am almost convinced myself that setting humanitarian concern in abeyance can be justified in the interest of a greater good, I pause and ask myself what my brain-smoked friends would have to say.

Just now the Joint Chiefs of the Empire's military were gathered—Admiral Antonio Motti, General Cassio Tagge, Rear Admirals Ozzel, Jerjerrod, and others—along with several top officers from COMPNOR, including Director Armand Isard, ISB deputy director Harus Ison, and Colonel Wullf Yularen. Naval Intelligence was represented by Vice Admirals Rancit and Screed

included the destruction of any property or other resources used to sustain Confederate armies as well as of those armies themselves.

I had a question. 'Why does the name Pearl Harbor sound so familiar?' The lieutenant colonel's eyes narrowed. 'Pearl Harbor is the most famous U.S. military base in the world,' he said crisply. 'It's the only place on U.S. soil that has been attacked in a wars, since the Revolutionary War.' None of this was ringing a bell, but you already know I'm totally uneducated. Gazzy leaned over to whisper, 'It was a movie with Ben Affleck.' Ah. Now I remembered.