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The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.
A military mindset is objectively analyzing a planned course of action and anticipating the likely consequences before you take that action.
Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you win.
I think one of the reasons I'm standing here instead of other people is that, frankly, I talked about it, we have to have a strong military.
I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school.
Gweneth Paltrow is a joke. Her life is like taking bullets for a soldier. What a joke! My 2 sons serving in the military should talk to her.
I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.
The Australian divisions and the New Zealanders had become what they were to remain for the rest of the war the spearhead of the British Army
One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about military service.
I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion about the U.S. military.
We will build our military forces to a level that will be, I believe, stronger than ever before if I become President of the United States...
Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win
Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.
I feel a special kinship with our military personnel, veterans, and their families. After all, two of my decisions sent them into harm's way.
If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it.
We've evolved a lot since 9/11 also, in terms of our law enforcement capabilities, our intelligence capabilities, military, counterterrorism.
I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.
We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport. That force was crushed
Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.
A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.
Somewhere inside, we hear a voice. It leads us in the direction of the person we wish to become. But it is up to us whether or not to follow.
Homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews.
If, however, there is to be a war of nerves let us make sure our nerves are strong and are fortified by the deepest convictions of our hearts.
The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.
My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
The most fatal mistake of this Israeli military junta is that they have the complex of the arrogance of power. This is their suicidal mistake.
The effect to be sought is the dislocation of the opponent's mind and dispositions - such an effect is the true gauge of an indirect approach.
I don’t fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, ‘Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?
Israel is the American watchdog in the Middle East, and that's why the Palestinians remain victims of one of the longest military occupations.
Every time I tour military outlets, I dedicate the food, fitness and set-ups to their service, because it all came to me through the military.
Artillerymen have a love for their guns which is perhaps stronger than the feeling of any soldier for his weapon or any part of his equipment.
Our military thought that they couldn't get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong.
Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.
They [Republicans] assume that military action always shows strength, while avoiding military action always shows weakness. That's just crazy.
When it comes to the military, I don't want to discuss things. I want to let - I want to let the action take place before the talk takes place
Let me tell you about gays in the military. I don't want any gay people hanging around me while I'm killing kids. I just don't want to see it.
The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate steps to protect that.
You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!
The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life.
I'm a military kid, both parents in the military - Mom did 12 years, Dad did 21, served in two wars. So discipline is something that was huge.
We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and opportunity are ascendant around the globe.
My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.
Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!
It's quite fun to fight them, you know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up front with you, I like brawling.
I have the utmost confidence that through your efforts we will eventually beat the hell out of those bastards - You name them; I'll shoot them!
Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.
You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration.