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"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."
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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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"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution."
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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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"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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"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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"So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before."
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"We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater."
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"We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching."
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"JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military."
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"The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery."
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"Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism."
Power
"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."
Military
"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
Government
"Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library."
Nothing
"Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline."
Discipline
"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."
War
"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."
Thought
"To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse."
Food
"Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed."
Time
"War is the unfolding of miscalculations."
War
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