Quotes About Combat

All warfare that is not defensive is criminal.

How many times have I told you not to hit people in the face. You kick them in the body where it doesn't show.

The way I wrestle five-year-olds makes me think if I were ever attacked by a pack of midgets, I'd be OK.

Yeah, how dare they try to kill you in the middle of a war? Don't they know you're busy trying to kill them? How rude!

Sometimes we must be very aggressive in our dealings with the enemy. Gordon Lindsay used to say every Christian should pray at least one violent prayer every day.

I should at least die as I had lived—fighting.

He was a mighty beast, mightily muscled, and the urge that has made males fight since the dawn of life on earth filled him with the blood-lust and the thirst to slay;

If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fighting is my vocation.

I am a fighting man, not a scientist. Here

native army, which it used

straight into the ambush de Morès

Violence! Violence!

In the military, when the enemy turned on the enemy, they called it "red on red." Soldiers didn't have to pretend to be sad about it.

The conflict was terrible; it was the combat of despair against grief and rage.

Aware that a man has no more chance with a woman, armed with the offensive and defensive weapons of tongue, tears, nails, and bamboo, than in a river with an alligator, I, for the first time in my life, acted prudently, and fled the fight.

No todas las batallas se ganan atacando al enemigo por su flanco más débil; en ocasiones resulta aconsejable atacar justo en su punto fuerte.

Ved cómo el odio y las luchas entre familias a nada conducen, más que al miedo, la locura y la muerte y cierto es que en muchos años que combatí junto a los míos contra nuestros eternos enemigos […], jamás vi nada bueno que lo justificase, porqué las rapiñas de unos con las rapiñas de otros se pagan, y los muertos de cada bando no tienen precio, sino que como una cadena van arrastrando nuevos muertos.

You cannot call yourself a proper warrior if you refuse to use all the weapons in your arsenal.

men in close combat

Italian foe in Sicily. From now on, the men

Ninety percent of all German combat deaths had in fact occurred fighting the Soviets, who had suffered and sacrificed most to defeat Hitler: an astounding 65 percent of all Allied fatalities.

Johnny Reb' laughed. 'What's it to a soldier the right and the wrong of it all? He's there for the fighting, that's what he likes. Doesn't matter who you're fighting, long as he gives you a good fight.

but instead of focusing inwardly like a victim—What is going to happen to me?—the sergeant retained his warrior mindset and focused externally on stopping the threat.

I do not have to watch late-night television, watch a movie, to find out what combat is like.