top of page
.png){kind=small}
"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars."
Standard
Customized
More
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them."
Author Name
Personal Development
"From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had."
Author Name
Personal Development
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
"So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I don't take criticism lying down."
Criticism
"Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country."
Nation
"I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student."
Leadership
"President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone."
War
"We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning."
War
"We had the best food any battlefield ever had."
Food
"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars."
Military
"Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
War
"I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected."
Leadership
"In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia."
Leadership
bottom of page