Quotes About Combat

War is nothing but organized murder.

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

Major, send a shell first over their heads and let them get in their holes before you open with all your guns.

War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism.

Wars are to be won with swords and spears, not with rice and salt.

Our hatred knows no bounds, and the war shall be to the death.

We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?

People pay to see blood, they pay to see war and that's why people are supporting my journey because I deliver every time I step in the ring.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!

War is the business of barbarians.

It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.

Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.

Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.

War is the normal state of the people.

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.

I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the enemy." My motto is "Destroy him by all and any means." I am the one who will wage the war!

The bullet is a mad thing; only the bayonet knows what it is about.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.

He who knows things, and in fighting puts his knowledge into practice, will win his battles. He who knows them not, nor practices them, will surely be defeated.