"Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her."

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"Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general."

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"My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness."

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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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"Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS."

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"Being the commander of a Ruminarii war vessel meant that he had risen to the rank by means of assassination and ruthlessness and was therefore implicitly distrusted by the Tidhii Mah'k'hai (Naval Command, that is The Queen Of Suth Herself.) He was expected to mete out, in generous portions, brutality to conquered subjects and to act swiftly and mercilessly in dealing with alien encounters. In short, he was expected to be a bad example."

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"I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border."

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"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."

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"Blinker Hall, operating on the quaint theory that the Navy might be needed for battle and that whatever increased the ship's efficiency was a criterion for change, had continued trampling on the toes of orthodoxy."

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"Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general."

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"You could tell that America was gearing up for war."

"On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor."

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