Quotes About Military

The casualties were beyond comprehension with 57,470 British casualties on the first day alone. Of these a staggering 19,240 were killed.

continual dissipation of American forces and morale. She was "petrified" about the consequences for America of making politics subservient indefinitely to military strategy.

On the choppers were twenty-three SEALs and a Pakistani-American who spoke the local language, Pashto. If crowds gathered at the Abbottabad compound, he would tell people there was a Pakistani military exercise going on and they should go home. Also on the flight to Abbottabad was a dog named Cairo, who would prevent "squirters" from sneaking out of the compound, sniff out any explosives, and hunt for possible safe rooms.

despite a huge idle standing army—sponsored, of course, by military-industrial interests in the United States—that could just as well be out in the weary countryside planting new trees.

Today, as you read this, Vichy Microsoft is even partnering with the Chinese military on the development of artificial intelligence.36 AI is a technology destined to be one of the most powerful weapons on the twenty-first-century battlefield. So the idea of a Microsoft Corporation in bed with the Chinese Communist Party first buying the American slice of TikTok and then keeping American data safe was indeed more than laughable.

and dust, the armored spearhead

As far as the political, military, and economic interests of the world's powers go, (Rwanda) might as well be Mars. In fact, Mars is probably of greater strategic concern. But Rwanda, unlike Mars, is populated by human beings, and when Rwanda had a genocide, the world's powers left Rwanda to it.

On the fourth anniversary of the war, peace seemed further away than ever. The military conspirators, and Billing, their pawn, had achieved their aims.

To confine soldiers to purely military functions while urgent and vital tasks have to be done, and nobody else is available to undertake them, would be senseless. The soldier must then be prepared to become a propagandist, a social worker, a civil engineer, a schoolteacher, a nurse, a boy scout. But only for as long as he cannot be replaced, for it is better to entrust civilian tasks to civilians.

to let the military direct the entire process...is so dangerous that it must be resisted at all costs.

ne fait aucun doute que, individuellement, les Algériens sont de bons combattants, mais ils sont incapables de former une armée tant que celle-ci n'est pas dirigée par des cadres européens. Nous

Je veux que le lecteur comprenne bien ce qui était en jeu pour moi à ce moment-là. Les guerres d'insurrection et de contre-insurrection sont extrêmement vicieuses puisqu'elles impliquent personnellement tous les hommes, militaires ou civils, des deux camps, qui se trouvent être dans le théâtre d'opérations. Personne

I've had enough of it already. Shining armour. Dawn parades. Forced marches. Midnight inspections. Penalties for sloppy salutes, uncombed crests, talking after lights out. The man's mad.

But now I could see, through the Vietnam debacle, that while there was a price to be paid, it was only correct to pay it if the product—democracy—was sound. And it was not sound in the corrupt ranks of South Vietnam's government and military, nor had it ever been, nor would it ever be, regardless of how many of America's sons threw their lives into the pot. As a nation, we had to get out of there. I'd

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combat is no place for martinets.

The Army isn't what it used to be," I lamented to General Cushman one day. "It never was," he replied.

In the four years since Obama's first inauguration, almost three times as many Americans have been killed in Afghanistan as in the eight years of the Bush administration.

To put the military factors in their proper perspective when deciding the political objective is a task for the statesman alone. Were he to wait until his armed forces were completely ready for war, then he would never act because armed forces are never ready – nor are they ever to be considered ready.

We exploit science to make war because we are warlike creatures.

You can't just march into someone else's country and start telling everyone what to do—even the Marines have to practice a little diplomacy. May

only a sergeant

high-pitched wail of the emergency General Quarters

The list of secrets that, if passed to a foreign power, could bring the death penalty for espionage includes data about nuclear weapons, military spacecraft or satellites, early warning systems, war plans, codes or communications intelligence, major weapons systems, or any "major element of defense strategy." 30 The Mind of Robert Hanssen Robert Philip Hanssen was a walking paradox—a zealous