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"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars."
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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."
"If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them."
"Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime."
"You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight."
"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."
"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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"I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student."
"The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names."
"By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?"
"As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it."
"Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there."
"It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign."
"Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
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