Quotes About Military

he was still General Bonaparte, the revolutionary soldier who had seized power by force of arms

Napoleon had 60,000 troops in Italy, scattered in different locations.

The crossfire was so heavy that French and Spanish cannon balls smacked into each other

90,000 artillery rounds, 32,000 reserve muskets, 30,000 separate items of engineering equipment

A square tower with four big guns would be very costly,

but an elliptical tower with one gun and two carronades could be built for a fifth of the price,

90,000 artillery rounds, 32,000 reserve muskets

One was John Moore, who had introduced the Light Infantry to the British army,

Wind was a major factor. Even a light breeze could upset the invasion barges,

But Napoleon saw everything in military terms.

as were the chaloupes canonnières,

The bateaux canonniers were more seaworthy, but could not traverse their guns.

With hindsight, Napoleon might have done better to build steam ships

He could have built a bridge, or a series of floating forts.

French officer declared that this shot alone had killed or disabled nearly forty men.

and more than thirty generals.

He heard of the generals Saddam had shot for lowering his prestige by losing battles and the generals Saddam had shot for rivalling his prestige by winning battles.

Don't let anyone but a soldier tell you how to fight a war.

While a weapon that could induce such powerful hallucinations would undoubtedly be of great military value, the theory fails for a number of reasons, including the global nature of the phenomenon, and the fact that the subject is now so high-profile that the abductors

something: scenario x is responded to by action y. Everyone learns it and then practices it until responses are almost instinctive. It's all part of the "train hard, fight easy" philosophy that's central to military life—though veterans of the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan smile

And it was gone—the super-carrier Justice. At least three thousand souls manning its gun crews, engine rooms, half a dozen flightdecks ... all gone in a brilliant, pixelated flash of light. The massive ship fractured into two main pieces, and the aliens, not content with the destruction, blasted the remaining larger half until it too exploded into several dozen smaller pieces.

La revolución socialista se podrá consolidar solo a través de la destrucción del sistema burocrático y militar del Estado Burgués

American artillery was now taking its toll on Rommel's Panzers.

Fifty-two German tanks were completely destroyed, while the British lost none at all and only one squadron was engaged in the fighting.