Quotes About Military

Many troops were far more proficient in PowerPoint than they were with firearms, so

retórica belicosa que caracterizó muchas de las intervenciones del presidente durante su mandato al hablar de seguridad y los operativos con participación central de los militares para enfrentar a las organizaciones criminales, con los terribles resultados en términos de pérdida de vidas humanas, serían tema central de las críticas al presidente, su visión y sus decisiones durante toda su administración.

L'Église espagnole est devenue la Putain des militaires épurateurs.

We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sakebut for the nations sake. Nothing matters more to the future of our country: not military preparednessfor armed might is worthless if we lack the brain power to build a world of peace; not our productive economyfor we cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of governmentfor freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant.

Newly conquered territory or districts needing to be kept in a state of military preparation for frontier defense, were organized as marks under margraves, or counts of the marks.

despite its shortcomings the First Crusade was one of the most daring and brilliantly successful military expeditions recorded in history.

When he heard the news, Luftwaffe General Walter Dornberg, the director of the Peenemünde center, exultantly crowed to his staff, "This afternoon, the spaceship was born." But, as Dornberg knew, this first successful test flight of the V-2 rocket—the world's first long-range ballistic missile—had a much more immediate importance

Were the Germans able to perfect these new weapons six months earlier, it was likely that our invasion of Europe would have encountered enormous difficulties and, in certain circumstances, would not have been possible," General Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of the invasion forces, later wrote. "I am certain that after six months of such activity, an attack on Europe would have been a washout.

When he took charge of the Air Corps in 1938, it was in pitiful shape—a pale shadow of the mighty Luftwaffe or Britain's Royal Air Force. Arnold himself called his service "practically nonexistent." Ranked twentieth in size among the world's air forces and still under Army control, it had a few hundred combat planes, many of them obsolete, and fewer than nineteen thousand officers and enlisted men.

The frontal attacks puzzled me. Why advance straight into German machine-gun fire? Why not make flank attacks?" These suicidal charges worked occasionally only because Stalin did not care how many of his own soldiers died.

It was still dangerous to disagree with Stalin. This fact was disastrous for the war effort. His generals were terrified of telling him bad news; it was safer to lie. For the first several months of the Great Patriotic War, therefore, he often didn't know the real strategic situation. Even worse, military experts couldn't question his amateur civilian judgment without fear of death.

WITH COMMUNISM NO LONGER VIABLE, THE DEFAULT RALLYING CRY for an autocratic Russian leader is nationalism. Putin, with his staged military parades and frequent invocation of past heroics, sounds that trumpet repeatedly. He wants citizens to believe that only he can restore his country to its rightful position in world affairs. If that means playing a little rough, so be it

For the DPRK and its military, the ouster of Saddam Hussein conveyed a powerful message: it's not enough to pretend to have weapons of mass destruction. To be secure, a nation must build them, own them, and hide them.

In 1937, Stalin ordered the executions of 680,000 people judged politically unreliable, including military officers, party officials, and members of the politburo—an incredible number.

I look forward to a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose

In August of 1941, the United States supplied Japan with 80 percent of its oil. When President Roosevelt announced a complete oil embargo, Japan's economic and military strength was imperiled.

In August, the lords appealed to England for military aid against the regent.

French troops had to evacuate Scotland

His troops forded the River Esk at low tide. When they returned, it was high tide

James V felt a deep psychological blow. He had been militarily and personally humiliated

She had great success in raising a royal army.

She rode out of Edinburgh at the head of between eight and ten thousand men

Next came "prisoners" captured at Boulogne, who were led through the streets in chains.