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Quotes About Military

General Mark Clark, who had served in Hawaii, was one of the few military men willing to say that he thought evacuation of the 160,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans on the islands was not necessary. He also said the chances of a Japanese attack on the West Coast was
~ Richard Reeves
General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, the commander in chief of the occupying German Army in Norway, called the Vemork attack "the best coup I have ever seen."1778 Whatever German physicists might be doing with heavy water, they would do it more slowly now.
~ Richard Rhodes
The MP's hunted antelope with machine guns for fresh meat and for sport. Groves authorized only cold showers for his troops; their isolated duty would win them eventual award for the lowest VD rate in the entire U.S. Army.
~ Richard Rhodes
He chose not to work through the limited official channels that the Army and the OSRD had devised to constrict the flow of information. "I wanted to let Oppenheimer know what we were doing. Someone in the Bureau of Ships knew one of the people in the [Navy] Bureau of Ordnance who was going out to Los Alamos. I remember that I met the man at the old Warner Theater here in Washington, up in the balcony—real cloak and dagger stuff.
~ Richard Rhodes
In a culture like ours, still preoccupied with security issues, enormously high military budgets are never seriously questioned by Congress or by the people, while appropriations reflecting later stages in the hierarchy of needs, like those for education, health care for the poor, and the arts, are quickly cut, if even considered. The message is clear that we are largely an adolescent culture.
~ Richard Rohr
Frank didn't drop you on purpose," she said. "He's not like that. He's just a little clumsy sometimes." "Oops," Leo said, in his best Frank Zhang voice. "Dropped Leo into a squad of enemy soldiers. Dang it!
~ Rick Riordan
Don't think of it as military," Julia said. "Think of it as theatrical. Massed pipes and drums," she said, reading from a program the so-called piper had given her, "and an army motorcycle stunt team. Highland dancers? And, oh, look, Russian Cossack dancers. That sounds like fun, doesn't it?" "No.
~ Kate Atkinson
You have too high an opinion of the high command
~ Kate Elliott
Navy Cotillion was where officers' children were supposed to learn the fine points of manners, dancing, white gloves, and other unrealities of life. It also was where children were supposed to learn, as if the preceding fourteen or fifteen years hadn't already made it painfully clear, that generals outrank colonels who, in turn, outrank majors and captains and lieutenants, and everyone, but everyone, outranks children. Within the ranks of children, boys always outrank girls.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
Military?" She followed my gaze to the guards. "Using supernatural beings to build the perfect weapon? Intriguing idea." "Not really," I said. "They did it on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A sub-par season. I slept through half the episodes.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Q: Why must the cannon be fired? A: The cannon must be fired because that is the reason for cannons.
~ Kelly Link
As in every country, Walter thought gloomily, army officers were pressing their political masters to take the first steps to war. It
~ Ken Follett
Grigori had become good at that, and in consequence had won the loyalty of his platoon.
~ Ken Follett
Galliéni, a crusty old soldier, had been brought out of retirement. He was famous for holding meetings at which no one was allowed to sit down: he believed people reached decisions faster that way.
~ Ken Follett
El flanco de un ejército era más vulnerable que su cabecera.
~ Ken Follett
este modo, los rusos describieron una trayectoria envolvente cuyos flancos se cerraron en tenaza en las proximidades de una ciudad llamada Tannenberg. Ambos
~ Ken Follett
Capt. Jenkins & Lieut. Ramsey—20:05
~ Ken Follett
Why not?" Grigori shrugged. "Cowardice. The tsar ordered Ivanov to march on Petrograd and set up a military dictatorship, but Ivanov's men became mutinous and the expedition was canceled." Katerina frowned. "Has the old ruling
~ Ken Follett
Dinamarca es un país llano con un buen sistema de carreteras, por lo que resulta imposible de defender contra cualquier ejército motorizado.
~ Ken Follett
El doctor Weiss, que tenía un amigo en los servicios secretos del ejército, afirmaba que había 110.000 alemanes defendiendo Berlín contra un millón de soviéticos. Con su habitual sarcasmo, dijo: «Pero tenemos la moral alta, y Adolf Hitler es el mayor genio de nuestra historia militar, así que estamos seguros de que ganaremos».
~ Ken Follett
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~ Ken Follett
They looked impressively military, in
~ Ken Follett
States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power.
~ John Mearsheimer
We need to use overwhelming air power. We need to be arming the Kurds. We need to be fighting and killing ISIS where they are.
~ Ted Cruz