Quotes about military
military flying use
The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty. Chuck Yeager
military saws firsts
The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.
military government iraq
How is it that we can militarily overthrow a military government like Iraq, yet we can't militarily keep illegalities (drugs and aliens) from crossing our borders? Chuck Norris
military outlaw victors
To the victors belong the spoils. Andrew Jackson
military too-much praise
Too much praise cannot be bestowed on those who managed my artillery.
military fighting son
Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No -- we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.
military blessing pay-the-price
But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
military home people
There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military. Anthony Bourdain
military people choices
In a dictatorship there is no choice, the elections are controlled, the police are the military, fear equals control, speech is suppressed, the economy is looted, the people are slaves. Alex Jones
military native number obviously respect
There are obviously a number of instances with respect to military personnel, with respect to Native American claims, with respect to Medicare, Janet Reno
military places
If there would be a necessity, why not? The Americans have in many places military bases. Jalal Talabani
military toys value
Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value
military pressure succumb tactics
The PPP and Bhutto will not succumb to such pressure tactics of the military dictatorship.
military order decision
Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given. Orson Scott Card
military blame ifs
If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it. Peter King
military lying believe
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State. Joseph Goebbels
military war squad
I want a military funeral when I die—the bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It will be a way of achieving what I've always wanted more than anything—something I could have had, if only I'd managed to get myself killed in the war.... The unqualified approval of my community. Kurt Vonnegut
military war men
He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.
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.
military growing offensive
With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.
military army levers
The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening resistance. By contrast, the narrowing of the frontage made it easier for the defender to switch his local reserves to any threatened point on the defensive arc.
military war levels
The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.
military hammers mosquitoes
The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes.
military opponents resistance
Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.
military fighting thinking
It is thus more potent, as well as more economical, to disarm the enemy than to attempt his destruction by hard fighting ... A strategist should think in terms of paralysing, not of killing.
military war mean
The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.