Quotes About Combat

No complaints. The kid is back in the saddle," Jackson said, sitting down. "You should have been up in the Tomcat with me last week. Oh, man, I'm finally back in the groove. I was hassling with a guy in an A-4 playing aggressor, and I ruined his day. It was so fine." He grinned like a lion surveying a herd of crippled antelope. "I'm ready!" "When

The Americans would claim thirty-seven kills, quite a score since they had expected a total of only twenty-seven Russian aircraft. In fact, of twenty-six MiGs, only five undamaged aircraft remained

There was a tendency in the U.S. Navy to assume that since they made their living by charging into machine-gun fire, Marines were dumb.

You couldn't allow yourself to get bored. THAT would be a fight.

Cheating was a concept both foreign and integral to the fighting of wars.

He fought her the way a coward fights a man--with feet, the palms of his hands, and teeth.

DO NOT PRAY! If you pray, your hands will close together. You will not be able to fight!" -Guts

Cockroaches were a problem, too, and to me the people who invented Combat, the little black roach-trapping contraption, are urban folk heroes.

Sometimes there's nothing but force that will get the job done, and the more force we bring to the equation, the better our odds of survival will be.

One becomes vulnerable when one stops to think about winning, losing, taking advantage, impressing or disregarding the opponent. When the mind stops, even for a single instant, the body freezes, and free, fluid movement is lost.

Gentlemen, I like war. Gentlemen, I love war. I like genocide. I like blitzkrieg. I like aggressive war. I like defensive war. I like sieges. I like breaking through. I like withdrawing. I like cleaning up. I like retreating. In moors. On highways. In trenches. In plains. On tundra. In desert. On sea. In sky. In mud. In marshes. I love every aspect of war that takes place on Earth.

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

Kill or be killed little warriors.

We must defend ourselves according to our opponents' ability, not their intentions.

Caving in to fear will be your death,' he once said. 'There is no room for it on the battlefield. Being afraid is healthy, but fear is an enemy.

How absurd it was that in all seven kingdoms, the weakest and most vulnerable of people - girls, women - went unarmed and were taught nothing of fighting, while the strong were trained to the highest reaches of their skill.

The friend, enemy, and combat concepts receive their real meaning precisely because they refer to the real possibility of physical killing.

Without wanting to decide the question of the nature of man one may say in general that as long as man is well off or willing to put up with things, he prefers the illusion of an undisturbed calm and does not endure pessimists. The political adversaries of a clear political theory will, therefore, easily refute political phenomena and truths in the name of some autonomous discipline as amoral, uneconomical, unscientific and above all else declare this- a devilry worthy of being combated.

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.

Ebenso ist die Eroberung von Provinzen eine andere Maßregel, wenn es nicht auf das Niederwerfen des Gegners abgesehen ist. In jenem Falle wäre die Vernichtung seiner Streitkraft die eigentliche wirksame Handlung und das Einnehmen der Provinzen nur die Folge davon; sie einzunehmen, ehe die Streitkraft zusammengeworfen ist, wäre immer nur als ein notwendiges Übel zu betrachten.

Der Soldat wird ausgehoben, gekleidet, bewaffnet, geübt, er schläft, ißt, trinkt und marschiert, alles nur, um an rechter Stelle und zu rechter Zeit zu fechten.

Es ist also nach unserer Einteilung die Taktik die Lehre vom Gebrauch der Streitkräfte im Gefecht, die Strategie die Lehre vom Gebrauch der Gefechte zum Zweck des Krieges.

You see it is not enough to merely evade evil. One must seek it out and destroy it.