War Quotes
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The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.
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The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history of war they form the more constant factors, changing only in degree, whereas the physical factors are different in almost every war and every military situation.
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With a nation at war against terrorism and our men and women on the front line defending our homeland from abroad, resources need to be prioritized and allocated properly.
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Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time.
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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
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If we are to assume that North Korea becomes a nuclear-power state, of course the danger of having an all-out nuclear war, that possibility is very slim.
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Where I would fault President Bush the most was that, in the wake of 9/11, he motivated our military, but he didn't call the nation into a state of war. And he didn't explain that this would take though a communal effort against common foe.
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The war in Iraq, the abuse of detainees, electronic eavesdropping, Guantanamo Bay - these things were all done on our behalf and they may turn out in the end to have created more terrorists.
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Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.
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The least likely of military leaders, Joan of Arc changed the course of the Hundred Years' War and of history.
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World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation. (p.66)
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WikiLeaks exposed corruption, war crimes, torture and cover-ups. It showed that we were lied to about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; that the U.S. military had deliberately hidden information about systematic torture and civilian casualties, which were much higher than reported.
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I played in bombed-out houses and grew up with the ever-present consequences of a lost war and the awareness that my own country had inflicted terrible pain on many nations during the horrific World War II.
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The war against British rule must continue until freedom is achieved.
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Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.
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Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
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The rules of engagement when I was in Afghanistan were very flexible. When you're at war, you're at war.
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This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs.
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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
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Why should Americans on the DMZ be among the first to die in a second Korean War? Should the North attack the South, could we not honor our treaty obligations with air and naval power offshore?
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I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.
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We knew that by closing the Gulf of Aqaba it might mean war with Israel. If war comes it will be total and the objective will be to destroy Israel.
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The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.
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Nothing gets us down more than watching violence on television or reading about war and brutality in the newspaper. The truth is, there's a massive reduction in the amount of violence around the world.
