Quotes About Combat

My toe as a lethal weapon!

That was the trouble with war, the Hawk thought detachedly:

Small was her destiny. And despite that, or because of it, she'd grown up with the furies in her sails, honing her confidence in verbal and physical combat with a brother who quickly doubled her in size. She had the temperament of the fire-eyed little shih tzu at the dog park that takes on the rottweilers with zero sense of disadvantage.

What was that Churchill saying? "Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." That's what this felt like.

Some vicious thing inside me stirred. I felt it in my gut, the back of my neck, my hands. I thought of Musashi, the master swordsman, who wrote, You must think of neither victory nor of defeat, but only of cutting and killing your enemy.

He stumbled and managed to get out a suppressed pistol, trying at the same time to regain his balance. But his motor skills were suffering from a large and probably insufficiently familiar dose of adrenaline, and the long suppressor made for an equally long draw. He bobbled the gun, and in that second I was on him.

In my unpleasant experience, unarmed against a knife, you've basically got four options. Your best bet is to run like hell, if you can. Next best is to do something immediately that prevents the attack from getting started. Third is to create distance so you can deploy a longer-range weapon. Fourth is to go berserk and hope not to get fatally cut going through and over your attacker.

would show that inside twenty-one feet against a knife, trying to get a gun out is typically a losing bet, especially if you're backing straight up rather than getting off the line.

After about fifteen minutes he walked over to me. "Randori?" he asked, in a tone that was more a challenge than an invitation. I nodded, averting my eyes from his hard stare. In my mind, our contest was already underway, and I prefer my opponents to underestimate me.

Thirty-round mag

When your sword meets that of your enemy, you can never waver, but must instead attack with the complete resolution of your whole body… —Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings

The clock's second hand swept past the twelve. I unloaded a final flurry of elbow strikes and stepped back. The adrenaline dump was largely depleted, but I still felt tense. Usually a workout helps with that. Not this time.

familiar with. "HK MK23 SOCOM, Knights Armament suppressor. One each.

The smaller guys can be dangerous. Never having been able to rely on their size for intimidation, they have to learn to fight instead. I know because, before filling out in the army, I had been one of them.

You must think of neither victory nor of defeat, but only of cutting and killing your enemy.

The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat, an army instructor once told me, and I've never forgotten the lesson.

Boxers wear tape to protect their hands. But you get dependent on the tape, and then you don't know how to hit someone without it. Even Mike Tyson once broke a hand when he hit another fighter barehanded in a late night brawl. In a real fight, if you break your hand, you probably just lost the fight. If you were fighting for your life, you probably just lost that, too.

You must think of neither victory nor of defeat, but only of cutting and killing your enemy. I

the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, the first Gulf war.

I thought of Musashi, the master swordsman, who wrote, You must think of neither victory nor of defeat, but only of cutting and killing your enemy.

turn aside her sorrow with the sword" (ferroque averte dolorem;

Some people don't think that women in the military can kill if they get into a fight. I think we can. All the general has to do is walk over to the women and say, 'You see the enemy over there? They say you look fat in those uniforms.'"     —Elayne Boosler The

member parties were ordered to organize along Leninist lines to combat "petit-bourgeois deviation

And after we've killed