Quotes About Combat

The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.

We fight wars from progressively great heights and distances, the blessings of technology steadily removing the personal human element from what was historically an extremely personal experience.

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault.

A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.

You can't tell me that all the wars we are fighting are in America's national security interest.

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.

As almost anyone with war experience knows, you're never supposed to show the enemy what you won't do to win.

I know what war's like. I know what scene's like.

I tried to peg out soldierly,--no use! One dies of war like any old disease.

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. I'm trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to be a hero in the context of 21st-century combat.

A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted.

War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.

I would say we must win the information war against ISIS. Every war we have ever been involved in has had a propaganda informational aspect to it.

Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]

The human race is almost addicted to war. It's like we just can't stop.

Tis a well-known fact that a man is either skilled in matters of loving or matters of war. 'Tis obvious that fighting is your skill.

This is war," he say quietly. "Well thank God you're dressed for it, Griggs.

War stinks! There's nothing good about it. But you know the whole thing, it's you or them.

I think when war becomes your life, I think its very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war.

Football offers us a sanitized spectacle of combat that has a clear resolution, which we need more and more today given our incoherent overseas "wars."

It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men.