Quotes About Military

The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.

I wanted to set the story straight and really let people know what it's like and what me and my Marines went through.

The day after that, the task unit and their single Bandito Platoon squad mustered at the North Island Naval Air Station for the flight that would take them west, halfway around the world. Actually

THE ESSENCE OF NAVAL SPECIAL WARFARE LIES IN THE INTEGRITY OF THE OPERATOR AND THE UNITY OF THE PLATOON.

Time is actually speeding up (or collapsing). For thousands of years the Schumann Resonance or pulse (heartbeat) of Earth has been 7.83 cycles per second. The military have used this as a very reliable reference. However, since 1980 this resonance has been slowly rising. It is now over 12 cycles per second! This means there is the equivalent of less than 16 hours per day instead of the old 24 hours.

Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.

Our Journey Together' features unforgettable moments from our time in Washington: building the Southern Border Wall; cutting America's taxes; confirming almost 300 federal judges and 3 Supreme Court justices; rebuilding our military; creating Space Force; dealing with Kim Jong-Un, President Xi, President Putin, and many other world leaders; and battling liberals on two Impeachment Witch Hunts, just to name a few.

In 1921, in newly conquered Tbilisi, the chekisty published an anthology, The Cheka's Smile. The contribution by Aleksandr Eiduk, executioner and roving military emissary, ran: There is no greater joy, not better music

Revolutions can occur only when significant portions of the elites, and especially the military, defect or stand aside. Indeed, in most revolutions it is the elites who mobilize the population to help them overthrow the regime.

A decision came quickly from the very top and we launched what the bureaucracy in Washington thought would be a small war under false pretenses and in the face of the on-scene military commander's advice to the contrary.

An ancient military leader supposedly once said that it is well that war is so terrible, because otherwise people would grow too fond of it

That's the difference between good military commanders and good politicians, John Geary. You've shown me that a good military commander spends the lives of their people reluctantly and with regret, but does spend them when necessary. The good politician does the same thing with principles. There aren't any fine burials for sacrificed principles, though.

The admiral was clearly more concerned with force diversity and the push to open the SEAL Teams to females than he was with crushing America's enemies. Whatever got him his next star.

The NCOs on his staff were all convinced that his regulation-length brown mustache was the result of the time he spent crawling up the SOCOM acquisition director's ass. This, along with his rodentlike face, led to his nickname: Gerbil.

How the Italian gunmaker's awkward 9mm handgun had replaced the Colt 1911A1 .45 to become the official sidearm of the U.S. armed forces, Reece could only guess.

Technically, he was "Ranger-qualified" or "Ranger-tabbed" but was not "Ranger-Scrolled.

Imperialism creates the illusion of wealth as far as the masses are concerned. It usually serves to hide the fact that the ruling classes are gobbling up the natural resources of the home territory in an improvident manner and are otherwise utilizing the national wealth largely for their own purposes. Eventually the general public is called upon to pay for all of this, frequently after the military machine can no longer maintain external aggression.

Although it is called the English Civil War, there were in fact three civil wars. And it wasn't just limited to England; Scotland and Ireland got involved as well! One notable incident occurred on the 11th of September 1649, when soldiers of the New Model Army captured the town of Drogheda in Ireland.

soldiers made up an amazing ten per cent of the army's troops, the high command accepted they were wrong to

Well, let's put it this way, you'll be a major by nightfall or dead

War may be the most efficient stimulus of innovation and technological advance,

retiring with the officer's equivalent of a general

The fate of the grand empire which Genghis Khan established was the same with that of all others that have arisen in the world, from time to time, by the extension of the power of great military commanders over widely-separated and heterogeneous nations. The sons and successors to whom the vast possessions descended soon quarreled among themselves, and the immense fabric fell to pieces in less time than it had taken to construct it.

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