Quotes About Combat

Woman, I'm trying to fight here! Or has that escaped your attention?

La guerra no pide armas. Es al contrario: las armas hacen nacer la guerra.

As long as I'm fighting, I'm not dying." - Mara Jade Skywalker

The concept of "purity of arms" was forged by the Haganah, meaning that combatants' weapons shouldn't be soiled by hurting civilians, women, children or unarmed enemy soldiers.

As long as people use violence to combat violence, we will always have violence.

I'm going to teach you the art of swordsmanship-or in other words, how to totally kill someone with a sharp, pointy thing.

The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite having the best fighting force the world had ever known, they were getting their asses kicked by illiterate peasants who made bombs out of manure and wood.

There was a famous story, some reporters asked a door gunner, "How can you shoot women and children?" and he'd answered, "It's easy, you just don't lead 'em so much."

We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the most obvious way. We used what was at hand, dropping the greatest volume of explosives in the history of warfare over all the terrain within the thirty-mile sector which fanned out from Khe Sanh. Employing saturation-bombing techniques, we delivered more than 110,000 tons of bombs to those hills during the eleven-week containment of Khe Sanh.

And they were killers. Of course they were; what would anyone expect them to be?

in combat, a pilot had to yank on his control stick with all his strength if he wanted to survive, and stamp his heavy, thick-soled flying boots mercilessly on the rudder pedals with his full weight as if he were kicking somebody on the floor in a life-or-death barroom brawl. In any case, hands and feet were too cold and cramped for gentle movement. The temperature at 25,000 feet was thirty degrees below zero, and the cockpits of the fighters weren't heated

The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.

This was war: a vast machine that chewed up people.

I know it sounds foolishly old fashioned, but I'm stuck with this idea that there's something dignified and noble about facing your enemy and looking him in the eye before you thrust a saber in his heart.

recognize the enemy, who doesn't just fight on the battlefield

Closing her right hand into a fist, she folded her thumb over her index finger. Then she drew her arm back. "When you absolutely, positively have to knock a hole through something..." The Warrior grunted as she drove her fist into the glass dome with tremendous force. "...you cannot beat a Jeet Kune Do punch.

Niten's hand moved and the ragged end of the broken katana caught the crocodile in the center of the chest. Eyes wide, mouth gaping in surprise, it staggered back into the fog. "You talk too much," Niten whispered.

The rider's right hand moved; the sword flashed Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and sliced the arrow in two.

How to carry it, simple thrust and parry. Try and avoid stabbing yourself with it," he added.

Because Rule #11 of a gunfight was: "Always cheat, always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose." Al-Sîf

The last thing they need is Lieutenant Gorman telling them to lay down suppressing fire with flame units and fall back by squads.

But when the American south started to go down, as the unsecured southern border with Mexico became a raging and unmanageable vector for the virus… and as the military bases became beleaguered outposts in a rising sea of the dead… and then when well-meaning combat medics poked a hole in the dike by bringing infected men inside…

Drake's hand snatched at his mic, what felt like a day late and many dollars short, to warn the pilots – that they had basically just brought a knife to a dogfight.

All warfare is based on deception." —Sun Tzu Not