Quotes About Military

VJ had gone to the Naval Academy, where he competed as a powerlifter and developed a distaste for military customs such as short hair and addressing people by rank.

He thanked me for our kindness, and I replied that we, as soldiers, had more in common with each other than we did with many people in our own societies.

3. Russia could become a very troublesome country, trying to use its military advantage over its neighbors to intimidate and dominate. This outcome would be most likely if a Russian leader were facing rising public discontent over sagging living standards and darkening economic prospects and is looking to rally nationalist sentiments by becoming much more assertive in the Near Abroad.

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

Cao reveled in the acclaim and the prospect of a general's stars. "I kill fifty Viet Cong today," he would announce to reporters coming to the command post. He began to learn the public relations game perhaps too well.

Cao sent the battalions chasing long-gone foxes because he wanted to give the presidential palace the impression he was on the alert. Afterward he would order the battalion back to its base to "rest" instead of returning it to the training center. Training his men for combat was not one of Cao's priorities. He pretended they were already well trained.

if preparation prevents war, there would have been no war in Europe. They spent twenty years preparing for it."29

G.I. humor is similar to cop humor.

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.

Davout commanded the Ambleteuse camp under strict discipline.

It was alleged that artefacts from Caesar's army and William the Conqueror's

VILLENEUVE HOLDS A COUNCIL OF WAR

He then ordered bread and cheese and butter and beer for every man at the guns.

Thirteen very unhappy officers filed into Villeneuve's cabin and sat around the table.

The first shot came from the carronade on the Victory's port fo'c'sle.

the number of capital ships available for the invasion of England had almost doubled overnight.

BRITAIN'S MILITARY DEFENCES

commander-in-chief of the British army,

It was followed in sequence by the fifty broadside guns on the Victory's port side,

Lord Nelson promptly followed it up with two signals of his own.

the first said simply: 'General chase, south-east.' The second said: 'Prepare for battle.

In truth, though, Villeneuve was still in command, and still in Cadiz.

They were complemented by another twenty-nine ships of the line, five frigates and two brigs – a total of forty vessels in all.