PROJECTILE n. The final arbiter in international disputes. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous.
At first he thought he felt bad because he was afraid of leading an army but it wasnt true. He knew hed make a good commander. He felt himself wanting to cry. He hadnt cried since the first few days of homesickness after he got here. He tried to put a name on the feeling that put a lump in his throat and made him sob silently however much he tried to hold it down. He bit down on his hand to stop the feeling to replace it with pain. It didnt help.
If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding.
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to and less than that no man shall have.
Describing Saddam Hussein of Iraq: He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts nor is he a tactician nor is he a general. Other than that hes a great military man.
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!
Up men to your posts! Dont forget today that you are from old Virginia.
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
Dont one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle but to make them long for it.
PROJECTILE n. The final arbiter in international disputes. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous.
At first he thought he felt bad because he was afraid of leading an army but it wasnt true. He knew hed make a good commander. He felt himself wanting to cry. He hadnt cried since the first few days of homesickness after he got here. He tried to put a name on the feeling that put a lump in his throat and made him sob silently however much he tried to hold it down. He bit down on his hand to stop the feeling to replace it with pain. It didnt help.
The sergeant is the Army.
If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding.
He who does something at the head of one regiment will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.
Son we live in a world that has walls and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whos gonna do it? You!?
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to and less than that no man shall have.
Describing Saddam Hussein of Iraq: He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts nor is he a tactician nor is he a general. Other than that hes a great military man.
War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
The best soldiers are not warlike.