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There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China is drifting further and further away.
Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.
To ensure prosperity here at home and peace abroad, we all share the belief we have to maintain the strongest military on the planet.
Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men.
There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.
[D-Day] means to me a beginning of the freedom of Europe. The freedom was the achievement of the military adversaries of the Germans.
Why wouldn't female Marines come forward? Because they don't trust us. They don't trust the command. They don't trust the leadership.
There's a tradition of public service in my family. I'm one of three boys that joined the military. My father was in the Peace Corps.
I'm not a representative of the military establishment. I came in with the Reagan Administration in 1981 as a presidential appointee.
Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.
Spending time with the military certainly lends itself to some remarkable experiences, and I've been privileged to have had my share.
The Baltic countries are sovereign nations. They have the right to decide which military and political bloc they want to be a part of.
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Anti-submarine warfare is the military version of chess. You must work out what the enemy is going to do before they even think of it.
We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
We do everything humanly possible, consistent with military necessity, taking many chances to avoid civilian casualties, at all costs.
And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
Every decision in government is so important, especially when it comes to the military where thousands of people can lose their lives.
The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.
In just one year, the expenditure of of the U.S.'s military budget is equivalent to the entire 50-year running budget of NASA combined.
Germany is prepared to agree to any solemn pact of non-aggression, because she does not think of attacking but only acquiring security.
Under Syrian law, a journalist is not allowed to report on military matters. This may be wrong or right, but that's just the way it is.
These mercenaries and hirelings kidnapped civilians in the Al-Faw Peninsula so that they might claim that they captured Iraqi soldiers.
The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duty from the front line.
There has to be a reason and objective (to air strikes). What does it do to move the effort down the road for a political conversation?
The Marine Corps is proud of the fact that it is a force of combined arms, and it jealously guards the integrity of its air-ground team.
Only native male citizens with a wife and children, a property, and a military rank should be allowed to vote and be elected for office.
I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.
God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.
There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
I think when the military ousts a sitting president, even if the sitting president is deeply unpopular, that's the definition of a coup.
I always wanted to go into the military or something like that - my whole family, all my friends are either Air Force, Navy, or Marines.
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
The United States turned to repression when its prominence started to slip in Latin America through establishing military dictatorships.
Air power alone does not guarantee America's security, but I believe it best exploits the nation's greatest asset - our technical skill.
In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.
I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians.
A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.
I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth.
They say "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." In the Marine Corps, you can make that horse wish to hell he had.
People like Donald Trump, who paid zero in taxes, zero for our vets, zero for our military, zero for health and education, that is wrong.
Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part.
I should deem a man-of-war incomplete without a body of Marines...imbued with that esprit that has so long characterized the "Old Corps."