Quotes About Combat

Defense is the first act of war.

Yes, Marines are down in jungle land and they did kill a man in a war, and a great many people did not know anything about it.

In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.

I met soldiers coming back from war and I was impressed by their description of PTSD, all the symptoms: the outburst of violence, the impossibility to cope with reality anymore, all that stuff.

The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If you think this is an exercise in civic activity... then you are going to be surprised.

In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.

Men have periods; they're called wars.

One of the parodoxes of war is that those in the rear want to get up into the fight, while those in the lines want to get out.

When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive.

A fighter should not think only of his shete, just because he has a shete in his hand. Everything is a weapon in the warrior's mind.

Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They fought not for the sake of fighting but for the sake of winning.

All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.

My father fought in World War I and single-handedly destroyed the Germans' line of communication. He ate their pigeon.

Waging war is not a primary physical need.

...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them

Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men. Later it was waged between lines of men in opposing trenches. Now it is organized slaughter of whole populations.

Nothing is more important than to war on war.

The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.

Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I've never heard of a clean one.

When I went to war, I did not go making geopolitical calculations. I went to war with a lust.

My fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.

The United States of America is engaged in a war against an extremist group of folks.

From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships.