Troops Quotes
Troops Quote of the day
A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.
India is using troops in Kashmir. They are losing the battle of heart and minds. It's like treating cancer with dispirin.
Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.
The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy.
Tactics is the art of using troops in battle; strategy is the art of using battles to win the war
We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.
I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn...but the troops were dazzled!
War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.
So such an American troops presence in Korea in the South and Japan, total some 100,000 should stay there forever, even after unification of Korean peninsula.
In bygone days, commanders were taught that when in doubt, they should march their troops towards the sound of gunfire. I intend to march my troops towards the sound of gunfire.
We don't mind that we still have troops in Germany, or that we still have troops in Japan or Korea. But they are not in danger, and we know that they are in danger in Iraq.
Logistics comprises the means and arrangements which work out the plans of strategy and tactics. Strategy decides where to act; logistics brings the troops to this point.
Nothing is so good for the morale of the troops as occasionally to see a dead general.
FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London
I am a Korean War veteran. I support our troops as much as anyone in this body, but I do so by advocating redeployment out of Iraq as soon as it can be safely done.
I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.
Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.
Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just require the military to move them elsewhere.
During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!"
I will give up troops gladly as long as I know that they will be used in the right place to bring victory.
There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops.
Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops.
Died of wounds inflicted in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War. Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees.
A compliance with the minutiae of military courtesy is a mark of well-disciplined troops.
I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq.
No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.
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.
When a general complains of the morale of his troops, the time has come to look at his own.
I would happily storm hell in the company of these troops ... how strongly they have demonstrated to the world that free men and women can fight like the dickens.
Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.
Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.
I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.
Last year I traveled to the Middle East to visit with troops in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.
Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.
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.
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.
The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'
If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road.