Quotes About Combat

Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men

I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.

A bullet will bounce off its arachnofiber weave like a wren hitting a patio door, but excess perspiration wafts through it like a breeze through a freshly napalmed forest.

Maybe that's how great warriors do it. Carelessly, not wracking their minds with the consequences.

In war, no matter how much you plan and prepare and practice, when the big day actually arrives, you still can't find your ass with both hands.

Even though we didn't say anything, we were in dialog: a peregrin dialog, meaning two equals wandering around trying to work something out, as opposed to a suvinian dialog where a fid is being taught by a mentor, or a Periklynian dialog, which is combat.

the whole idea of stealing fantastically dangerous weapons presents the would-be perp with inherent dangers and contradictions: When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

In a sword-fighting drill, where one participant is going to mount an attack and the other is to respond in some way, the attacker is known as the agent and the respondent is known as the patient.

In a sword-fighting drill, where one participant is going to mount an attack and the other is to respond in some way, the attacker is known as the agent and the respondent is known as the patient. The agent acts. The patient is passive.

Swords don't run out of ammo," Hiro shouts.

I doubt you even know what duty is," she retorted. A risky response—such flippancy of the tongue—and it might provoke them, but showing fear would invite a response. Half of combat is causing your opponent to think you are stronger than you are, Gansukh had told her. Scarface

Ah," Reagan says, raising his waxed and penciled eyebrows, and cocking his pompadour in Shaftoe's direction. "Smarrrt—you target them because they're the officers, right?" "No, fuckhead!" Shaftoe yells. "You kill 'em because they've got fucking swords! You ever had anyone running at you waving a fucking sword?

A great warrior must always search for the enemy's intentions and guard his own.

FIGHTER (deprecated synonyms: CONAN, WARRIOR) One who specializes in missions where, to put it politely, martial attributes are of the essence. Since every DTAP has a unique environment surrounding weapons, fighting styles, and martial culture, competence in fighting is only a part of the skill set required to be a successful Fighter. It is equally important to know how and when to fight.

would draw P-38s as the scent of human flesh draws mosquitoes.

Even high-tech weapons systems cannot defeat organized small-arms fire on a massive scale.

I want to learn martial arts, he said docilely, so when I want to kill someone, I can do something about it.

I want to learn martial arts, so when I want to kill someone, I can do something about it

anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammo is cheap. And if your shooting stance is good, you're probably not moving fast enough.

I hit him with a left hook, and he toppled back onto the grass.

The short-timers, who'd gone through hell without even a small pee in their pants, were all jittery that something was going to happen before they boarded the freedom bird home. I mean, after you've cheated death for so long, you become paranoid, sure that death had just remembered you were leaving.

Survival is a strong instinct, surrender is not an option, and all combat is justifiable homicide. But you pay a price.