Quotes About Combat

I was in the military for over ten years! If you can't read a battlefield you could accidentally surrender to your own officers, which is super embarrassing, if only because it'll get you shot.

Stupid foes were easy to defeat and angry foes even easier. Mix the two together, though, and you're in for a fight.

Stack 'em like cordwood. Victory was a high body-count, defeat a low kill-ratio, war a matter of arithmetic.

Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;They took the spear—but left the shield.

the Die-Hards cited the fact that it took five times the number of British troops to suppress the Boer guerillas.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Masgard drew his sword and swished it to and fro, practising flashy fencing moves as he advanced on her. When he was a few feet away Hester lunged forward and jabbed her blade at his shoulder. She didn't think she'd done much damage, but Masgard dropped his sword and put his hands to the wound and slithered in the snow and fell over.

It is just as if some phenzy-struck person supposed himself to be grappling with an imaginary combatant, and then, having with great efforts thrown himself down, thought that it was his foe who was lying there;

Whether you are in a street fight or confronting an invading army, appear weak when you are strong and strong when you are weak.

Ai can be translated as meaning "harmony," "unity," or "to join and become one." The concept of harmony in combat is hard for most people to comprehend. We are all used to fighting force with force, to meeting attack with resistance. The idea of meeting an attack with love and harmony appears contradictory and impossible.

Sing of my deeds Tell of my combats How I fought the treacherous demons Forgive my failings And bestow on me peace

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.

Existen kilómetros de película con todo tipo de aparatos que se enfrentan en los cielos del mundo entero desde septiembre de 1939 hasta final de la segunda Guerra Mundial. Y todos se parecen. Una mancha imprecisa, oscura, surge de la niebla de la película en blanco y negro, destella, se parte en trozos, humea y después se desintegra

And the combat ceased for want of combatants.

Posture for combat is so vital.

Female service members are so integrated into the military, so critical and vital to all functions of the military, from combat service support to combat support, to direct combat, that we could not go to war as a nation - we could not defend America - without our women.

Fear isn't in my vocabulary in terms of how I approach a fight.

You have to be very vocal about being willing to fight anyone.

I had the vocation for politics. What I didn't have was any aptitude for political combat. I took the attacks personally, which is a great mistake. It's never personal: It's just business. It was ever thus.

Mr. Trump has evolved to the point where he understands that a grass-roots strategy must be supplemented with paid advertising to be able to combat the negative ads that will run against him - and he is prepared or preparing to spend what it takes to make sure his message gets to the voters.

Everybody sees it and thinks it's so exciting. They don't realize it's a professional sport. Everyone wants to be an ultimate fighter until they get hit.

You have to keep on disrupting. If you let up the pressure, then al-Qaeda senior leadership will come back.

I like to be very physical: Any sort of fight sequence is a dream to me.