Quotes About Combat

Emplear ejércitos para ataques ocasionales, asaltos contra los recursos económicos del enemigo, para amenazar o desmoralizar a la población enemiga puede resultar una forma alternativa de coacción frente a la batalla abierta.

Tactics defined as "the science of military movements

in 1971 New York City had more murders than American combat deaths in Vietnam during the same period.

Swordplay is not about strength.  It is about speed and agility, and the ability to read the mind of your opponent so you know what thrust he will make as soon as he knows himself.

When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!

Boards don't hit back.

The success of an assailant's attack depends on surprise, and if you're sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already halfway to being successful.

Enough, a person might say, if that person lived in the civilized world, the world of movies and television and fair play and decent restraint. But Reacher didn't live there. He lived in a world where you don't start fights but you sure as hell finish them, and you don't lose them either, and he was the inheritor of generations of hard-won wisdom that said the best way to lose them was to assume they were over when they weren't yet.

He picked up the wrench and broke the guy's wrist with it, one, and then the other wrist, two, and turned back and did the same to the guy who had held the hammer, three, four. The two men were somebody's weapons, consciously deployed, and no soldier left an enemy's abandoned ordnance on the field in working order. The doctor's wife was watching from the cabin door, all kinds of terror in her face. "What?" Reacher asked her.

hit them fast, hit them hard, and hit them a lot

spent most of her ten-year military career at a keyboard, directing drone strikes against terrorists. She'd killed more people from the comfort of a Herman Miller chair, with a Starbucks Cinnamon Dolce Latte in one hand, than most soldiers

This is how mankind has always thought of the enemy — as the one who, if you do not kill him first, will sooner or later kill you.

Never speak harshly of your enemy -- when you can kick 'im in the shins instead!

bis peccare in bello non licet – in war two blunders aren't permitted.

Since at least the Sixth Century all librarians have received extensive combat training and are lethal with even the common toothpick.

His reading has done him no harm, for he has fought as well as read.

This is war,' I yelled through the door. Lucky for me,' Morelli said. 'I give good war.

He had a lot of muscle and a skill level somewhere between Batman and Rambo.

I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.

During a round, unless the crowd is quiet, which a lot of times it isn't in my fights, you're standing there and the coach yells, 'One-two, one-two low kick.' Whatever it is, you don't really hear stuff. When you're in a fight and leather is being traded, I mean, are you really going to hear your coach?

Unlike most sports playing fields, a boxing ring is a temporary structure.

I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

Unlike a 'fracking ban,' the Fossil Energy Research bill would actually help us combat climate change.

In my view, airstrikes without an effective ground force are unlikely to make any meaningful contribution to defeating Isis.