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"A minor request," said Mazer. "Let's not refer to it as the training cage. 'Training' sounds laborious and regimented. Soldiers groan at the word. These men joined the IF to fight, sir. Let's call it the Battle Room."
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"From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had."
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"We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers."
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"The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?"
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"Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general."
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"I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us."
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"Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign."
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"It is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them."
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"Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues."
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"The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth?"
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"Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move."
War
"It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; if twice as numerous, to divide our army into two."
Strategy
"Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment - that which they cannot anticipate."
Mindset
"Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits."
History
"First lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle; if you will not begin with stratagem but rely on brute strength alone, victory will no longer be assured."
Strategy
"If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep ditch. All we need do is attack some other place that he will be obliged to relieve."
Strategy
"In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good."
Art
"Danger has a bracing effect."
Adventure
"All war is deception."
War
"When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce."
Strategy
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