Quotes About Military

Particularly significant for the future development of Guderian's military thought were the linguistic abilities he began to acquire at school. He developed excellent French and good English.

those who had defended the Republic court-martialled and executed en masse for "military rebellion".

the role played by such individuals within the military trial system of the 1940s was as denouncers rather than witnesses – an important distinction.

The military rebels issued secret orders dating back to April 1936 that indicated maximum force was to be used: this was violence as the end of the argument over constitutional reform.

imperial defeat turned the military into a powerful internal political lobby determined to find a new role while guarding against any loss of income or prestige in the interim.

For land and social welfare reforms cost money and the government was seeking to subsidize these by cutting the military establishment and thus its enormous salary bill.

The military rebels and their civilian supporters were thus redefining "the enemy" as entire sectors of society that were perceived as "out of control

African mercenaries (the regulares)

the desire first to humiliate and then to eradicate those women who had demonstrated any kind of autonomy, but especially those who had actively participated in the military defence of the Republic (the milicianas).

the wave of priest killing that occurred once the military coup had collapsed public order, was entirely unprecedented.

the attempted military coup of February 1981, the Tejerazo.

The Republican authorities could not initially prevent extra-judicial killing in their territory because the military coup itself had completely collapsed the police and army as the instruments of public order while it had also generated a huge surge of fear and anger. But the regime subsequently rebuilt public order – not least to put an end to murder.

the Republic was seeking to defend itself against a rebel onslaught backed by the industrial might and military muscle of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

those who had defended the Republic were court-martialled and executed en masse for "military rebellion", a punishment that would continue after 1939.

Terror could only happen because the military allowed it.

Franco's coalition was driven by a very particular desire: that of both the colonial military elite and its civilian supporters to subject social change to court martial and restore their ideal of a static society.

the military coup detonated all manner of private hatreds, as well as social fears and prejudice – all of which were legitimized by the coup's pervasive rhetoric of "purification", to become an integral part of the "crusade", with lethal results.

Among the military rebels and all their immediate supporters there was an especially pathological fear and loathing of emancipated women

Francoist military psychiatrists carried out psychological tests on both captured International Brigade prisoners and Republican women prisoners.

military court (consejo de guerra)

In spite of Franco's close political identification with the Nazi new order in Europe, he did not align Spain militarily with the German–Italian Axis and thus never directly threatened Allied imperial interests.

The Spanish Civil War began with a military coup.

The loss of empire deprived Spain's over-large officer corps, which had been inherited from the continuous wars of the 19th century, of any meaningful external defensive role. In so doing, imperial defeat turned the military into a powerful internal political lobby determined to find a new role while guarding against any loss of income or prestige in the interim.

Shame on military glory, shame on armies, shame on the soldier's profession, which changes men, some into stupid victims, others into base executioners. Yes shame, that's true – but it's too true, it's true in eternity, but not yet for us.