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"The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever."
Janis Karpinski
"The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever."
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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."
Francis Parkman
"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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"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars."
William Westmoreland
"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars."
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"The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?"
Frank Chodorov
"The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?"
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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."
William Bell
"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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"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?"
Dwight Schultz
"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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"It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations."
John Walker Lindh
"It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations."
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"We must maintain strong defenses, military and spiritual."
Prescott Bush
"We must maintain strong defenses, military and spiritual."
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"It is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them."
Sun Tzu
"It is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them."
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"We need a very strong military to protect the freedoms we do have."
Jerry Bruckheimer
"We need a very strong military to protect the freedoms we do have."
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"Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign."
Robyn Hitchcock
"Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign."
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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."
Kelly Miller
"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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"Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general."
Robert Shea
"Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general."
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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."
Jack Adams
"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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"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."
Jane Mayer
"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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"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."
Jack Schwartz
"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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"The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off."
William Henry Harrison
"The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off."
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"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."
Barbara Tuchman
"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."
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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."
Harrison Salisbury
"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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"Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues."
John Keegan
"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."
Geoff Hoon
"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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"So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before."
Will Adams
"So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before."
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"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."
Carlos Wallace
"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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"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."
Jack Adams
"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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"From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had."
Will Adams
"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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"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."
Rob Simmons
"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."
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"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."
Christina Engela
"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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"If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them."
Sun Tzu
"If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them."
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"A minor request," said Mazer. "Let's not refer to it as the training cage. 'Training' sounds laborious and regimented. Soldiers groan at the word. These men joined the IF to fight, sir. Let's call it the Battle Room."
Orson Scott Card
"A minor request," said Mazer. "Let's not refer to it as the training cage. 'Training' sounds laborious and regimented. Soldiers groan at the word. These men joined the IF to fight, sir. Let's call it the Battle Room."
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"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution."
John F. Kennedy
"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution."
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