People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.
Just drive down that road, until you get blown up
Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy. . . use the conquered foe to augment one's own strength.
Everything, everything in war is barbaric. . . But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.
My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!
The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions.
What chiefly governs the [U. S. ] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.
Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.
In every war at some point in time, you do sit down and negotiate.
We cannot be secure by limiting our liberties, as some of our political leaders are demanding, but only by expanding themWe should take our example not from the military and political leaders shouting 'retaliate' and 'war' but from the doctors and nurses and firemen and policemen who have been saving lives in the midst of mayhem, whose first thoughts are not violence, but healing, and not vengeance, but compassion.
The easiest and quickest path into the esteem of traditional military authorities is by the appeal to the eye, rather than to the mind. The `polish and pipeclay' school is not yet extinct, and it is easier for the mediocre intelligence to become an authority on buttons, than on tactics.
The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.
We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces.
It is the act of a coward to wish for death.
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.
I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.
Get there first with the most.
The repeal of don't ask, don't tell didn't change things for transgender people in the military. What it has done, though, I think, is it has taught our military leaders that they don't need to be afraid of these issues.
