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“Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.”
Quote by -Douglas MacArthur
“I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any treat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.”
Quote by -Douglas MacArthur
“The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can't get away this time!”
Quote by -Douglas MacArthur
“And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.”
Quote by -Douglas MacArthur
“Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.”
Quote by -Heraclitus
“War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.”
Quote by -Heraclitus
“Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.”
Quote by -Heraclitus
A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.
Quote by -Isoroku Yamamoto
If we are to have a war with America, we will have no hope of winning unless the U.S. fleet in Hawaiian waters can be destroyed.
Quote by -Isoroku Yamamoto
The most important thing we have to do first of all in a war with the U.S., I firmly believe, is to fiercely attack and destroy the U.S. main fleet at the outset of the war so that the morale of the U.S. Navy and her people goes down to such an extent that it cannot be recovered.
Quote by -Isoroku Yamamoto
Unless more efforts based upon long-range planning are put into military preparations and operations, it will be very hard to win the final victory.
Quote by -Isoroku Yamamoto
I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.
Quote by -Tom Brokaw
This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions.
Quote by -Ulrich Beck
“Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“When we assumed the soldier, we did not lay aside the citizen.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
"We've got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government."
Quote by -John Abizaid
"Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time."
Quote by -John Abizaid
"Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are."
Quote by -John Abizaid
"Yet, we believe that that's probably the vigilance of Iraqi security forces and some of our proactive measures the night before probably saved lives."
Quote by -John Abizaid
"You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation."
Quote by -John Abizaid
"is to build an Iraqi security capacity, all the way from the police level up to the national army level, that is militarily effective and loyal to the established civil government."
Quote by -John Abizaid
"Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here."
Quote by -John Abizaid
"I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes."
Quote by -John Abizaid
"I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people."
Quote by -John Abizaid
"It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America."
Quote by -John Abizaid
"Militarily we are not in any danger of losing. We can't be defeated militarily based on what the enemy currently throws against us."
Quote by -John Abizaid
"The real target is creating enough chaos in Iraq so that an extremist government can emerge there that would be friendly and conducive to the form of ideology that bin Laden, Zawahiri and Zarqawi believe in."
Quote by -John Abizaid
"Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them."
Quote by -John Abizaid
"We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone."
Quote by -John Abizaid
"And over time, I think, as Iraqi security capacity builds, you'll see American and coalition presence there decline."
Quote by -John Abizaid
"And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly."
Quote by -John Abizaid
"As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it's not just Zarqawi."
Quote by -John Abizaid
"Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last."
Quote by -John Abizaid
"But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough."
Quote by -John Abizaid
"But I am satisfied that the information that we have that this is the work of Zarqawi, is accurate."
Quote by -John Abizaid
"But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity."
Quote by -John Abizaid
"Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation."
Quote by -John Abizaid
"I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time."
Quote by -Napoleon Bonaparte
"When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes."
Quote by -Napoleon Bonaparte