Mike Jackson Quotes
Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.
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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
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It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.
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Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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I don't think I have a demographic. I was at Comic-Con in San Diego recently, and I was doing a signing, and my line was all military guys, young girls, housewives and guys in wheelchairs. There was just everybody all over the place.
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Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.
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Managerial discretion can take many forms, some very subtle. Individual managers may run slack operations; they may pursue subgoals that are at variance with corporate purposes; they can engage in self-dealing.
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Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back.
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I understand the military. I know the military.
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The FBI has built up substantial expertise to address cyber threats, both in the homeland and overseas. Here at home, the FBI serves as the executive agent for the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (NCIJTF), which joins together 19 intelligence, law enforcement, and military agencies to coordinate cyber threat investigations.
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ISIL, AQ, now have the ability to literally reach into our homeland through social media, through the Internet, to recruit and inspire. It makes for a more complicated homeland security environment. And so it requires a whole of government approach, not just military and law enforcement, homeland security, aviation security, and the like.
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Under well-settled legal principles, lethal force against a valid military objective, in an armed conflict, is consistent with the law of war and does not, by definition, constitute an 'assassination.'
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Aviation constituted a new and possibly decisive element in preventing or fighting a war, and I was in a unique position to observe European aviation - especially in its military aspects.
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A great deal of the work I do involves the military.
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But even before I was in the military, I was extremely jumpy when asleep.
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I did not go to military school. I had an option either a military school or a private school. I don't know how to get that out of the information that's out there.
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Real heroes don't wear capes. Real superheroes wear uniforms and badges and stethoscopes! Real superheroes are members of our military, law enforcement, and first responders. Pretend superheroes wear capes!
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The constant movement of a military life can be tough on children. My father was an officer in the army, and I was forced to change elementary schools six times.
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Unless we rise to the challenge, instead of American youth being able to live the American dream, the Chinese will fulfill their dream of overtaking America.
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I want to remake the world; anything less is not worth the trouble.
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There's more to life than just the things that can be explained by encyclopedias and facts. Facts alone are not adequate.
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Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.
