Quotes About Military

NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.

If you sit down with British officers or British senior NCOs, they understand the sweep of history. They know the history of British forces not just in Afghanistan but the history of British successful counter-insurgencies - Northern Ireland, Malaysia.

The basis on which the Good Friday agreement was constructed was in addressing those problems in the history of Northern Ireland, the social and constitutional problems as well as the military problems that have been unaddressed for centuries.

If we're going to be successful and be considered credible in the Hispanic community, we've got to denounce some of the ignorant statements that are made about Hispanics and the contributions we make, whether it's to the military, our nation's economy, or to the history of Texas.

If you look at the history of innovation, the innovations coming through the defence department have been some of the most important innovations ever. Little things like drones, sensors, and the Internet of Things are defence-type initiatives, but the big one is the Internet itself.

The time has come to repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' It is the right thing to do. Every American should have the opportunity to serve their country, regardless of race, sex, creed, or sexual orientation.

We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.

There is a thematic continuity here within Bigelow's work: 'The Hurt Locker' serves up a military equivalent of the thrill-trips that Lenny Nero was hustling in her earlier 'Strange Days.'

This had the effect of bringing the Roman legions into the southern

Sparta, by contrast, concentrated its power on land.

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (the Great), better known in English as Pompey

troops. Not only did he destroy the pirates' bases

The military machine that had humbled Athens in the Peloponnesian War had become simply irrelevant.

Alexander had given orders for this contingent to be surrounded and 'butchered to a man'.

of member-states from enlisting in foreign armies.

centroamericanos. Pero como el dichoso Estado de bienestar no llega, las causas que impulsan la migración siguen operando. La solución: reprimir y detener con la fuerza militar los flujos migratorios extranjeros. Éste fue el resultado de la consigna que proclama que la mejor política exterior es la interior. Y si la política interior es mala, tendremos la peor política exterior

Of all Ottoman innovations none was perhaps more significant than the creation of a regular army.

Each mason was assigned two helpers, one to work each side of him, and was held responsible for the construction of a fixed quantity of wall per day. Discipline was overseen by a force of kadis (judges), gathered from across the empire, who had the power of capital punishment; enforcement and military protection was provided by a substantial army detachment.

So rapid was the Ottoman assimilation of cannon technology that by the 1440s they had evidently acquired the unique ability, widely commented on by eyewitnesses, to cast medium-size barrels on the battlefield in makeshift foundries. Murat transported gunmetal to the Hexamilion and cast many of his long guns on the spot. This allowed extraordinary flexibility during siege warfare:

If I decide to make a career in the army, he said, I would never be rich, but I would live one of the most satisfying lives there was to be had. Then he warned me that satisfaction would come at a great cost to me and any family I might have. I should never expected to be thanked; a soldier, if he was going to be content, had to understand that no civilian, no government, sometimes not even the army itself, would recognize the true nature of the scarifies he made.

He was to tell André Malraux later: "Clemeneau used to say: 'War is a much too serious business to be left to the military.' And look what happened to Communism when the Communists got hold of it or to the Catholic Church in the hands of the clergy. We are rapidly approaching a point when it will no longer be possible to trust scientists with science.

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases... is an old-fashioned idea.

The majority of the American people opposed military action against Syria in the latter half of 2013. Still, there is much tolerance of our constant smaller wars as many people just pretend the wars don't exist. There's no real endorsement, but also no real objection.