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Military Quotes


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


"Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery; we express our appreciation and support to their families. And we pray for their safe return."


"Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign."


"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."


"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."


"From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had."


"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."


"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?"


"Ministers regularly meet soldiers that have returned from operational tours to hear about their experiences, including those who have recovered from their injuries."


"It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations."


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


"We need a very strong military to protect the freedoms we do have."


"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."


"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."


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


"We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers."


"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."


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


"If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them."
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