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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."


"Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups."



"So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime."


"Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated."


"The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges."


"Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996."


"My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness."



"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."


"Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up."



"I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention."


"Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her."


"I think we look to the military as something that protects our shores."


"I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it."


"And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights."


"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."


"JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military."



"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."


"It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations."


"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."



"One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all."


"I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex."


"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?"


"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."


"So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before."


"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."


"You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation."


"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."


"You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight."


"Benteen, come on, big village, be quick. Bring packs."


"We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching."
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