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Military Quotes
"In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path."
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"So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime."
66
"Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated."
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"The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges."
49
"Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996."
38
"I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us."
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"My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness."
36
"Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up."
29
"I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention."
28
"I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex."
24
"I think we look to the military as something that protects our shores."
24
"I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it."
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"Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her."
23
"And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights."
22
"You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight."
21
"They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise."
21
"A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand."
20
"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?"
20
"And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier's stress levels to see how they're doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program."
20
"You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation."
20
"The French were generous in giving us assistance in corps and army artillery, with its personnel, and we were confident from the start of our superiority over the enemy in guns of all calibers."
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"It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations."
20
"Benteen, come on, big village, be quick. Bring packs."
19
"We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching."
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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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"JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military."
19
"The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them."
18
"We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater."
18
"When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it."
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"We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence."
18
"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."
18
"Military service is not just a vocation. It is a way of life, an attitude that you carry in your heart even after you are discharged."
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