Quotes About Combat

A soul under the power of conviction from the law is pressed to fight against sin, but hath no strength for the combat.

37. There is no "overkill." There is only "open fire" and "I need to reload." 70 Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

The U.S. started to go downhill when it changed from a round designed to kill our enemies to one designed to piss them off.

Got him, Knapp said. He was standing by with another magazine and spotting for the lieutenant. Left, monster in the open.

The problem with fighting at a lower level is that it doesn't simulate reality well. You want to train harder than real combat, not easier.

Women don't learn any of that: when they fight, they'll rip the gizzard out of anyone who gets in the way.

there was an immensely satisfying crunch, at that perfect distance where your hand and knuckles don't feel it too much, and your shoulder takes up some of the recoil, and the nose guy's head rockets off your knuckles like a tennis ball flying off a racket.

around the pistol grip of the M-15.

A battalion was apparently a mid-level unit, in size, and his particular battalion had apparently been deeply enmeshed in combat in Iraq. Dannon had gotten good efficiency marks, but Lucas wasn't sure how exactly to evaluate them. In his own bureaucracy, good efficiency marks were subject to interpretation by insiders, and could damn with praise a little too faint.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

If you ever get in a situation where you need to shoot somebody, point the gun and keep pulling the trigger until it stops shooting. Forget about rules or excessive violence or any of that. Just keep pulling.

Attempting to use a biological agent against your enemy while avoiding its effects on you is like trying to use a grenade by holding onto it and hoping all the shrapnel flies in the direction of the person you want to kill.

Occam's razor theory of combat: The simplest way of kicking someone's ass was usually the correct one.

For two years, all you have to do is go where they tell you, stay behind your rifle, and kill and not be killed. It's simple, but simple isn't the same as easy.

It's not that Seaborg disliked Harvey, but after a couple of combat drops with the 2nd Platoon one got the sense that if you didn't like things to explode unnecessarily around you, you would want to stay well clear of Daniel Harvey.

Harvey called it his Occam's razor theory of combat: The simplest way of kicking someone's ass was usually the correct one.

When asked about it, Harvey called it his Occam's razor theory of combat: The simplest way of kicking someone's ass was usually the correct one.

Fighting someone who was intimately aware of your internal state of mind made it an interesting extra challenge.

We're not military," Sharan said. "And I'm sure that will make a huge difference to whoever is attacking the base," Cainen said, and offered the gun to Sharan.

This is beyond understanding. said the king. You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself? And Merlin said quietly, Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.

I'm tired of people who have not been at war who know all about it.

And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, Use it well, use it wisely.

They say a good soldier fights a battle, never a war. That's for civilians.

I knew from combat that casualties are the victims of a process, not of anger nor of hate or cruelty. And I believe that in the moment of acceptance, between winner and loser, between killer and killed, there is love.