Quotes About Combat

The LORD goes forth like a mighty man, Like a man of war He stirs up His fury; He cries out, He shouts aloud; He shows Himself mighty against His foes. Is 42:13

The worst description I ever read was by a best-selling novelist who sized up World War II this way: "The war was just terrible.

P]olitics is always a Kampfplatz.

Blessed is he who is skilled with the sword. It will keep him from falling.

war is the result of total irrationality combined with conflict of interest.

killed fifteen men when I was in combat. Yeah, he was a nurse. Couldn't read the label on the medicine bottle.

Beyond them, sat Soi Hon, who was a veteran of early-twenty-first century bush wars, an ecological agitator, he called himself. Annette gathered his battles hadn't been fought along national lines, but rather corporate ones.

They used a bazooka to shoot the Warrior Angel, it was spectacular ineffective.

Back on land he headed for the pub to forget the kill. The Army had taught him how to handle that as well. How to suspend human feelings in combat, to refuse the blame for all the deaths, the pain, suffering, horror. Greg had never woken screaming like others in the regiment had.

He was readying his energistic powers to deal with her bodyguards, who had now caught her up, when she did her level best to ram his testicles into his eye sockets via his intestinal tract.

But in the fourth century, as in any other, 'no plan survives first contact with the enemy'.

The cornerstone of the Roman legionnaires' astonishing fighting spirit can be attributed to their training.