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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.
silence desert gleam
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams... Antoine de Saint-Exupery
silence rare-occasion gym
On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence. Bebe Neuwirth
silence ends
In the end, the only thing between us was silence. Becca Fitzpatrick
silence said okay
I called Vee. "How are you doing?" I asked. "Good. How are you?" "Good." Silence. "Okay," Vee said in a rush, "I am still totally freaked out. You?" "Totally.
silence speech
I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence. C. S. Lewis
silence important conversation
Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about. Cecelia Ahern
silence betrayed
Silence never yet betrayed any one! Antoine Rivarol
silence vices avoiding
The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.
silence word worth
If a word be worth one shekel, silence is worth two
dare determination respect social
kudos to the educators, athletes, dancers, judges, janitors, politicians, artists, actors, writers, singers, poets, and social activist, to all who dare to look at like with humor, determination and respect Maya Angelou
dare decision except man nobody
I tell it like it is. Nobody can make that decision except the man himself. He's the one that's got to make it, and don't look back. Don't you dare look back.
dare grow
I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.
dare favor gold rise
I don't dare say that I favor gold in the long run. After gold's rise to these levels, I think there will be a correction.
dare hockey player
I dare say, he did more (publicity) in the preseason than any hockey player ever has,
dared hard lose physical training
I dared to lose and I won, ... It was a lot of hard work, and physical training and studying.
dares hardly man men whom woman
There are such astonishing things to be told about men and women, and hardly a man or woman to whom one dares to tell them
dared
I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it. Karen Joy Fowler
dare duty faith freedom might understand
Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. Abraham Lincoln