Ex Military Quotes
We were not told how Alexander the Great was the last person in history to successfully 'pacify' what would become Afghanistan, over 2, 000 years ago.
An Army wife is probably the only woman in the world whoknows and readily accepts that she is the mistress, because, let’sface it, the Army is the wife and the wife gets all the damnattention!
God works through people by stirring their hearts and sometimes people never know how they are helping others.
Writing a first-draft battle scene is akin to real combat—chaos, confusion, and you must keep your cool as you fire word bullets downrange.
Indeed, there is nothing on this earth more peaceful than a sleeping, purring cat.
Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he was going out with a rifle in his hand.
Redemption was asking too much, but he could hope. Something told him he’d still be seeking absolution when he took his last breath on some distant day.
I'd put him in the spot where he got hit. It was my fault he got shot. A hundred kills? Two hundred? More? What did they mean if my brother was dead?
...it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre...
I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality.
The Prussian monarchy is not a country which has an army, but an army which has a country in which – as it were – it is just stationed.
In recent years, academics, policy-makers, and experts have raised the question of the applicability of peacetime environmental law in times of armed conflict.
A psychologist would probably diagnose insanity for a nation that spends more on its military than the next 8 nations combined, while its poor are starving.
It is very easy to be a military strategist, a mercenary, or a king, but much harder to be a father.
Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
Maxim 28: If the price of collateral damage is high enough, you might be able to get paid for bringing ammunition home with you.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
That which is chiefly the office of a general, to force the enemy into fighting when he finds himself the stronger, and to avoid being driven into it himself when he is the weaker...
If all we’re prepared for is unconventional warfare, suddenly a massed conventional attack becomes an asymmetric advantage.
In a conflict doesn't win who has more weapons but who knows best use for them
Pointing out the possible, and expensive, entanglements that could come with widespread commercial enterprise, the author calculates the Great Britain was at war half the time between 1689 and 1783.
We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.
Maxim 18: If the officers are leading from in front, watch out for an attack from the rear.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
Maxim 2: A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
Maxim 15: Only you can prevent friendly fire.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
Maxim 5: Close air support and friendly fire should be easier to tell apart.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
The one ring road around the airfield is paved, but heavily rutted and potholed. Every few days a street-sweeper makes its way around, polishing the rutted surface with brushes and water.
They kill hundreds of people, those pilots. I would have loved to have flown the plane that dropped the bomb on Japan. A couple of dudes killed hundreds of thousands. That f****** rules! Yeah!
Loving a warrior is not easy. I pray our Lord Jesus will strengthen you for the journey.
What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will certainly be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.
For a guy who wore layers upon layers of armor, his give-a-shit was showing.
All right. They’re on our left. They’re on our right. They’re in front of us, they’re behind us. They can’t get away this time’.
Splash or crash? Do you want special ops messing about in boats? Or special ops messing in aeroplanes?
A protect-yourself-first-and-foremost idea has subverted the mission of law-enforcement officers, just as it may have degraded the military's.
When our objectives become purely military, we've already lost the larger fight.
Do not disagree with each other, enrich the soldiers, despise everyone else.
That’s because it is cruel, Obi-Wan, ” Anakin snapped. “Cruel and unfeeling and unworthy of the Jedi Order.” He was so like Qui-Gon. This was like arguing with a ghost.
Today we say goodbye to a proud warrior. As we leave, each of us will take our members of [USS} Midway with us...you guys were the 'Magic.' It was a privilege to sail with you.
Never say "I thought, so", after doing a blunder, always think, ask and do.
When a man that attractive licks his lips, a girl's got to look. And imagine...
War is a soul-shattering experience for the innocent.
Back on the block they probably call Big Al "Fat Albert" but here in the Nam we don't insult our friends.
To where? We don't know. To do what? We don't know either. No one tells us anything. We just follow orders.
One difficulty that someone who has been in military/government service during war has, is reconciling his/her pride with their horror.
Very few USA citizens realize that the USA corporate military is regarded by many to be both a domestic and international terrorist organization.
I'm always under surveillance from both the NSA, the Russian KGB, and the Bulgarian Army, so I'm the most invisible.