Quotes About Military

Officially, a legion had a strength of between four thousand and six thousand men

It was divided into ten cohorts, which were in turn subdivided into six centuries commanded by centurions;

Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, for example, had been about twenty-nine

Warships had brass battering rams on their prows, and the usual tactic was to ram the side of an enemy ship.

A soldier's basic pay was nine hundred sesterces a year, entailing an aggregate expenditure of 140 million sesterces.

the cavalry was better paid than ordinary infantrymen; and officers

Pompey, jealous of Caesar's military achievements in Gaul, became increasingly friendly with the optimates.

It would have been intended as a broad framework to guide future military activity, if not as a precisely worked-out blueprint.

It would have been intended as a broad framework to guide future military activity

Menodorus delivered to Octavian Sardinia and Corsica, three legions, and some light-armed troops.

Varus saw it, the army was there on a policing rather than a military mission.

following him during the years when he won one victory after another over incompetently led Roman legions.

Believing in Arminius' honesty, he took the bait, gathered his scattered forces, and marched off

The well-informed Parthians turned up out of the blue with a force of fifty thousand mounted archers

The Cold War provided justification for a larger peacetime military, since we were never really at peace, or so the argument went.

Here's the problem - under both Obama and Trump, American military forces and assistance have provided just enough support to anti-Assad forces to keep the resistance going, but never enough help to actually dislodge Assad from power.

China and Germany are important geo-economic powers that have been able to bolster their geo-political and even military power, thanks to the opportunity provided by their geo-economic rise.

In my view, America has never had the opportunity to enter paradise. Europe enjoys the paradise it enjoys, in part because the United States provides the overall security that allows Europe to live in a system where military power is not a major issue.

Providing access to a public option for health insurance would allow all Americans the choice to buy a government insurance plan, much like I buy for my family as a military retiree.

If the Pentagon truly confined itself to providing defense, then presumably we wouldn't need a whole separate government agency to provide 'Homeland Security.'

No one painted a more accurate picture of military depredation than Vergil. Inspired though he was by the Latin spirit and by his pride in Rome, he nevertheless glorified Rome's true mission as one of providing the world with the rules of peace and justice.

With growing economic prowess comes, of course, military power.

For far too long we have continued to mark our military prowess by the size of our forces: believing that numbers of ships, planes, and brigades is what most matters - just like during the Cold War.

I always give much attention to military character and to psychological and morale conditions.