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military next orders outlook remains sales tent unchanged until year
Our outlook for military tent sales this year and next remains unchanged until we have orders in hand, Helen Johnson
military war army
At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust each other. This is an enduring civil war between the Shia, the Sunni, and the Kurds. So I don't think we've got any options and we'd be ill-advised to start bombing where we really can't sort out the combatants or understand where the civilian population is. Barry McCaffrey
military sight balance
For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and this line may no longer be that of least resistance. In studying the physical aspect, we must never lose sight of the psychological, and only when both are combined is the strategy truly an indirect approach, calculated to dislocate the opponent's balance. B. H. Liddell Hart
military lying cutting
The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer to the strategic base it takes place, the greater the effect.
military decision battle
[The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy.
military enemy purpose
In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed - if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose.
military men stupidity
No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.
military balance usual
The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.
military taken order
While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.
teaching games safety
What really matters in a workplace, what helps an employer if you've got a unionised workforce is if your shop stewards know the rules of the game, if your safety reps are taught to be able to examine situations to make sure the workplace is more safety. Better informed delegates, better workplace safety saves companies money. Unions are very good at safety. We are good at teaching delegates how to resolve disputes. Bill Shorten
teaching kids quality
To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults? Bill Crawford
teaching appreciate people
In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to enjoy, and finally to appreciate the people who 'happen to be there.' Made for us? Thank God, no. They are themselves, odder than you could have believed and worth far more than we guessed. C. S. Lewis
teaching purpose adults
The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning. Carl Rogers
teaching youngster
Imagine, a 32-year-old youngster teaching an 80-year-old something. Do I want him to come to the Giants? Yes, I want him. I want him to be our manager.
teaching engineering years
If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time... Charles Kettering
teaching humility views
...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view should teach one profound humility, one deserves no credit for anything...nor ought one to blame others. Charles Darwin
teaching school drawing
Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has placed the construction of machinery in the rank of a demonstrative science. The day will arrive when no school of mechanical drawing will be thought complete without teaching it. Charles Babbage
teaching eloquence tedious
Continuous eloquence is tedious. Blaise Pascal
soldier body accessories
The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
soldier stability
He was a soldier of justice, which is indispensable to our freedom, stability and peace.
soldier littles hollywood
I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow. Channing Tatum
soldier hardship complaining
If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.
soldier citizens function
The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable. Benito Mussolini
soldier loyal foundation
Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of a soldier in the public service. Be loyal to the Commonwealth and to yourselves and be brief; above all be brief. Calvin Coolidge
soldier demand heavy
The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response. Carl von Clausewitz
soldier working-together devil
I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me. Brandon Sanderson
soldiers someplace train
Soldiers train here in their specialty, and then go on to their assignments someplace else.