Quotes About Military

My intent is to help retire the word "civilian" in drawing a distinction between police and community members. Why? Because, if those served by police are civilians, that makes cops, ipso facto, a military force.)

In response to [the Philistine] threat [in the ninth century B.C.], the Hebrews could no longer rely on the leadership of 'judges,' ad hoc military leaders (some of them, peculiarly, women; perhaps reflecting as feminists claim, and earlier matriarchal society).

There was one other anti-invasion tactic that was never admitted officially, at the time or later.[212] Churchill ordered his military chiefs to investigate the possibility of drenching the beaches with mustard gas if the Germans landed.

As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.

the only means by which field-grade officers can expect a promotion is combat.

Ve Tanr?, emekli albaylar? kendi suretinde yaratt?.

I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence.

The land of scholars, and the nurse of arms.

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1 000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

Let the capitalists do their own fighting and furnish their own corpses and there will never be another war on the face of the earth.

Of course, with the arrival of both Washington and General Lincoln, La Fayette had lost his command and was again the leader of a mere division

Their notion of training was to march the men up and down in parades and reviews: these were nice to look at and gave them the impression of military discipline and precision, but as a preparation for a modern war they had no value whatsoever.

The Provisional Government had lost effective military control of the capital a full two days before the armed uprising began. This was the essential fact of the whole insurrection: without it one cannot explain the ease of the Bolshevik victory.

America is a great power possessed of tremendous military might and a wide-ranging economy, but all this is built on an unstable foundation which can be targeted, with special attention to its obvious weak spots. If America is hit in one hundredth of these weak spots, God willing, it will stumble, wither away and relinquish world leadership.

He would show up not with women but with two or three newspaper or magazine reporters. According to some of these fellows, now that the military had fallen, the impoverished poets and artists were going to be the new public heroes.

They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

I even tried to join the army, but they wouldn't have me. The bloke in the uniform took one look at my ugly mug and said, 'Sorry, we want subjects, not objects'.

Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people — and kill them.

No era Calleja, como lo creía él mismo, un gran militar […] su energía era menor que su crueldad feroz; su constancia igualaba a su lentitud […] es frente a Morelos en el arte de la guerra lo que un artesano lento y tosco frente al artista de concepciones rápidas».

Os militares não dão cultura ao povo, porque se o povo tivesse cultura não os aceitaria.

país dominado por las deudas, el analfabetismo, el clero, los agiotistas y los militares.

She missed his voice, the music he played on his guitar, the sound of his laughter. And sex. yes, she missed that, too. Having the evenings and weekends free to whatever she wanted--something she had once cherished about being single--wasn't nearly as satisfying as doing those things with Javier. But that's what it meant to love a military man.