Military History Quotes

Military History Quote of the day

Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target.

Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly.

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.

[General James Mattis] a very talented individual. He's - has a personal library of about 10,000 books and he's read most of them on military history and strategy and so forth.

Reducing military presence has never in history won a war.

I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty.

May be you find out I could be useful getting people out of camps and prisons in Germany - just before they got shot. I should love to do it and I like to jump out of a plane even every day.

She could do anything with dynamite, except eat it.

Memories are nice, but dreams are better.

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.

[A]s military history reveals, a bad plan is often better than no plan, especially if the people on the other side think it’s a good plan.

Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.

I am tired of the sickening sight of the battlefield with its mangled corpses & poor suffering wounded. Victory has no charms for men when purchased at such cost.

When facing a decision that stands a 50/50 chance of being correct, the choice made will be wrong 80% of the time. Rick Coxen

Very few people in the USA realize that a nuclear war was waged with nature in the southwest by their own military.

Warfare is a series of tragedies enjoined by logistics.

Military Veterans have become gang members since the late 1700s.

Gangs have had connections to the U.S. Military in every period since the founding of the country.

Gang members have joined the military since the mid-1800s.

Members of every major street gang, outlaw biker, and domestic extremist group have been found in a number of military branches.

Congress has mandated an annual report on street gang, outlaw biker, and domestic extremist activity in the military since 2008.

Jesse and Frank James were the most well-known military-trained gang members

If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee?

After the 'war to end war' they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making a 'Peace to end Peace.

Stupid Wars are easy to start but hard to end.

The first gang members who joined the military were known as the Hounds, a group of former New York gang members.

Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another.