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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.
season struggle weekend year
Our season was a real struggle all year long. Nothing went our way all year, but this weekend we didn't give up.
season shooting talked
We've talked all season about free-throw shooting. We talk about shooting with confidence.
sea swim temptation
This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash, careful not to get out of my depth and holding on to the lifeline which connects me with my things temporal. C. S. Lewis
sea roots space
God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the ruined world up with Him.
sea sail forbidden
I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas ... Carl Sagan
sea rivers rumor
Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea. Antoine Rivarol
season smarter
I was about 20 times smarter before this season started than I am now. Zack Greinke
sea safety riches
Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore. Bill Vaughan
season stands worst
That was the worst part of the season that stands out.
commands disobey far former latter reason
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former we are fools. Blaise Pascal
command control rejects ways
rejects of the old ways of command and control from above.
command finding forces hands keen leave orders ready rest taking talkative though
Paulus Aemilius, on taking command of the forces in Macedonia, and finding them talkative and impertinently busy, as though they were all commanders, issued out his orders that they should have only ready hands and keen swords, and leave the rest to Plutarch
command defense game good mantra pitches pitching three typical
Our mantra is good pitching and good defense, so that was kind of a typical game for us. For (Peacock) to be able to command three pitches like that was very impressive.
commands dual system
Such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty. Antonin Scalia
command created internal skeleton
That command just created an internal skeleton for this object.
command emergency goal incident scene support team
Our goal is to give our Incident Command Team the same communications support capabilities at the scene of an emergency as they would have in the office. E. B. White
command discipline doctrine military picture responsibility reveal
Our findings reveal a picture of military discipline from which the doctrine of command responsibility is completely absent.
command common consider court great respect
It is a very great mistake, common to counsel, and especially to young counsel, to consider that a decision of any court must necessarily command the respect of another.