Troops Quotes

• [When I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan] that was the first time in which I looked out at a crowd of West Point graduates and knew that some of those might not come back because of that decision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Decision
  • West Point

• Generals who save troops for the next day are always beaten.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Troops
  • Beaten
  • Generals

• I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.

  

  Anthony Wayne
  • Power
  • Morning
  • Shoes

• It was reported today that U.S. military bases will not show 'Brokeback Mountain.' However, during interrogations, U.S. troops will continue to show 'Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Today
  • Military
  • Mountain

• Toughest decision was early in my presidency when I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan. As somebody who had run to end a large troop presence overseas.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Running
  • Decision
  • Troops

• This fight has nothing to do with soldierly gallantry or principles of the Geneva Convention. If the fight against the partisans is not waged with the most brutal means, we will shortly reach the point where the available forces are insufficient to control the area. It is therefore not only justified, but it is the duty of the troops to use all means without restriction, even against women and children, so long as it ensures success.

  

  Wilhelm Keitel
  • Children
  • Point
  • Brutal

• Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion had good, solid, professional noncoms, and its troops had served together for a long time. It was a good rifle company and I was happy to get it. Captain Diduryk was twenty-seven years old, a native-born Ukrainian who had come to the United States with his family in 1950. He was an ROTC graduate of St. Peter’s College in Jersey City, New Jersey, and was commissioned in July of 1960. He had completed paratrooper and Ranger training and had served tours in Germany and at Fort Benning. Diduryk was married and the father of two children. He was with his mortar platoon at Plei Me camp when he got the word by radio of his company’s new mission.

  

  Hal Moore
  • Ukrainian
  • Battalion
  • Bravo Company

• If you pull out troops too quickly now, and you see the situation in Iraq collapse before the midterm elections, the impact is going to be far more serious than if you keep the troops in at reasonable levels.

  

  Anthony H. Cordesman
  • Levels
  • Far
  • Troops

• Now, this not only means seeing the troops are fed, clothed and housed properly the easy part, but more importantly, training them to perfection, anticipating their problems and needs while actively anticipating and eliminating problems before they occur.

  

  Hal Moore
  • Problems
  • Troops

• The administration does not agree with those who suggest we should deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to engage militarily in a ground war in Iraq.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • American
  • War
  • Iraq

• Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with them.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Army
  • Troops
  • Cossacks

• Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Energy
  • Moves
  • Troops

• It's all rot that they put in the war-news about the good humour of the troops, how they are arranging dances almost before they are out of the front-line. We don't act like that because we are in a good humour: we are in a good humour because otherwise we should go to pieces.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • War
  • Troops
  • Good Humour

• France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Command
  • Troops
  • God's Help

• What, then, was the new strategy he proposed? More troops and more money. For him, any other option was unthinkable. It would mean he had made a colossal mistake.

  

  Carol Tavris
  • Money
  • More
  • Strategy

• The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.

  

  Wilhelm Keitel
  • Women
  • Means
  • Empowered

• Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government...

  

  Henry Ford
  • America
  • Troops
  • World Government

• The worse the troops the greater the need of artillery.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Worse
  • Troops
  • Artillery

• We're not going to put the cart before the horse and just think by sending more troops, we're automatically going to make Americans safe.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Horse
  • Troops

• I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.

  

  William Westmoreland
  • Thinking
  • Military
  • Troops

• The commander must be at constant pains to keep his troops abreast of all the latest tactical experience and developments, and must insist on their practical application. He must see to it that his subordinates are trained in accordance with the latest requirements. The best form of welfare for the troops is first-class training, for this saves unnecessary casualties.

  

  Erwin Rommel
  • Experience
  • Application
  • Casualties

• The drones are really interesting - how have the troops withdrawn from Afghanistan? Because we've upped the drone strikes and most of the country doesn't even really know what that means or who we're killing or... it's such a new weapon that we don't know what the long term impacts of that kind of military action is going to be.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Interesting
  • Killing
  • Weapon

• In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment we have made.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • Commitment
  • Storm
  • Desert

• Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don't in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well-mannered and teach your subordinates to do the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide.

  

  Erwin Rommel
  • Voice
  • Endurance
  • Hide

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