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"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars."
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"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."
"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?"
"It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations."
"You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight."
"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 haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student."
"President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone."
"It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation."
"When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves."
"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?"
"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."
"We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning."
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