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A troop surge in Baghdad would put more American troops at risk to address a problem that is not a military problem.
The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.
The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array...
I believe we must be strong militarily, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness.
We'll build new ties of trade and of commerce, culture and education that unleash the potential of the Iraqi people.
Either I will come back after hoisting the Tricolor, or I will come back wrapped in it, but I will be back for sure.
Do me a favor, okay? Tell my parents that I fought well today. And tell them that I... that I... that I fought hard.
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
Courage, an independent spark from heaven's bright throne, by which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone.
You're the reason why selfless soldiers won't be kicked out of the military because of who they are or who they love.
I'm 100 percent serious. I've been fighting for equality for women's issues my entire life, in the military included.
So as through a glass and darkly The age long strife I see Where I fought in many guises, Many names - but always me.
One time I got dressed in all black, Rambo-style, and took a massive pair of bolt-cutters and nicked a military bike.
A cause breaks or exalts a soldier's strength; unless that cause is just, shame will make him throw his weapons away.
We must learn from history, there is no military solution for the Kashmir issue...we have to understand this reality.
The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.
It won't take weeks... Our military machine will crush Iraq in a matter of days and there's no question that it will.
One hundred infidels committed suicide as they entered the holy city of Baghdad. Their tanks will become their tombs.
The United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime.
We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.
In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
As a military pilot and a test pilot, handling unusual situations and aircraft malfunctions was part of the business.
I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
We have the world's best military, even though he (President Barack Obama) has done everything he can to diminish it.
I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?
In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.
ISIS has a caliphate the size of Indiana! Also, US military has been totally gutted. Can't even project power anymore.
The sacrifice of the brave men and women of the military and their families allows us to be safe, and we are grateful.
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
Being a goalkeeper is like being the guy in the military who makes the bombs - one mistake and everyone gets blown up.
He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.
Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy... use the conquered foe to augment one's own strength.
Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.
Like so many others, my military career was anchored by a calling to give back to a country that had given me so much.
As Americans we've gotta make sure that we begin to rebuild and get our military the resources they need to defend us.
If you put two brigades on the ground right now with U.S. forces, they would push ISIS back into Syria in a heartbeat.
The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
China's limited military power is for the sake of preserving national sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.
To me, there's only 5 real jobs in America: Police Officers, Teachers, Firefighters, Doctors, and the Military Service.
War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation.
The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.