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"Normal military trade is undoubtedly part of the normal State-to-State relations."
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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."
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"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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"Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated."
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"Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996."
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"The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges."
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"I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed."
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"Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups."
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"I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention."
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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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"The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off."
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"I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex."
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"I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service."
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"You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight."
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"Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign."
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"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."
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"Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine."
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"I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support."
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"Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime."
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"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."
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"The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply."
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"If it wasn't for the military I probably would not have ever come to Bosnia for vacation."
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"And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights."
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"I felt a little uncomfortable because, when I went in to the military, I was the main male vocalist they had and when I came out they had like two or three vocalists. Otis came in when I was in the military, too."
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"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars."
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"Benteen, come on, big village, be quick. Bring packs."
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"The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?"
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"Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA."
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"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."
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"Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor."
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"Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general."
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"When I came out of the military, I had a club in Memphis and I started using the The Bar Kays as my club band. They were still only in the middle school - but I'd take them on the road with me on the weekends, sometimes."
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"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."
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"The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up to Baghdad. I joined my brigade to take command at the end of June."
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"I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer."
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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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"The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale."
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"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution."
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"I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border."
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"I have always had a particular antagonism for the military."
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"I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago."
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"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?"
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"Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues."
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"Ministers regularly meet soldiers that have returned from operational tours to hear about their experiences, including those who have recovered from their injuries."
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"The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4."
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"We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby."
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"It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations."
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"I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941."
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"My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness."
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"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."
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